Dartmoor became the first racially segregated prison in American history ... prisoners felt certain that Dartmoor’s final act would be remembered: in April 1815, trigger-happy British guards set off a ...

In Dartmoor Prison's early years it was incredibly crowded with appalling conditions. Between 1813 and 1815 around 6,500 American prisoners were held there. It closed shortly after, before ...

Following the Ministry of Justice's announcement that the prison, now HMP Dartmoor, will close in 2023, we've looked back at some of the most famous and notorious men who have walked it's corridors.

New additions, including paintings and a model ship, have been added to Dartmoor Prison Museum ahead of its reopening. Museum curator Paul Finegan said the painting is of a former Dartmoor ...

Conditions for inmates at Dartmoor Prison have been condemned as inhumane and unsafe. The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) concludes in its annual report for 2022/23 that the prison is neither ...

Dartmoor Prison is overcrowded, understaffed, and under-resourced and fails to provide a humane, fair, or safe environment for the prisoners, a report has said. The Independent Monitoring Board ...

The report said the prison had taken on an extra 49 prisoners who had been housed in cells designed for one Dartmoor Prison is overcrowded, understaffed, and under-resourced and fails to provide a ...