It is 35 years to the day that she recalled the longest and most violent prison riot in British history. In 1990, at Strangeways prison in Manchester, violence erupted over the conditions in the ...

Thirty-five years ago today, there were rumblings of serious discontent deep in the bowels of Strangeways prison. Staff were being warned of notes and messages being passed between increasingly ...

A corrupt prison officer who smuggled drugs into jail ... was said by police to be 'under her care' at Strangeways. He's been sentenced to six years, concurrent to the life sentence he is already ...

PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy Stock Photo There must be Smiths fans out there in the world that don’t know that Strangeways is the commonly used name for Her Majesty’s Prison on ...

"He has since received death threats whilst on remand, from others in Strangeways prison," Mr Barton said ... Judge Chris Smith told the three men they had been "foolish" to miss out on discounted ...

The notorious Strangeways prison has been put into emergency measures after standards of safety and hygiene were found to have collapsed, leaving the jail “fundamentally unsafe” for both ...

The notorious Strangeways prison has been put into emergency measures after standards of safety and hygiene were found to have collapsed, leaving the jail “fundamentally unsafe” for both prisoners and ...

Pat Smith, 41, from Bristol ... be released early from Manchester’s notorious Strangeways jail, below, has claimed conditions inside the prison are chaotic. Karl Wilson (see post at 12.56 ...

Despite the dramatic unfolding of their dissolution, The Smiths pulled out all the stops for their ... The most obvious reason is its reference to Manchester’s notorious prison, Strangeways Prison, ...

Despite tough competition within the catalogue, many – including Marr and Morrissey – now view Strangeways as the greatest album The Smiths ever made. It was March 1987 when the four members of the ...

In Chile’s oldest and most overcrowded prison, the inmates have found solace in the hundreds of stray cats. A cat on a prisoner’s back in Chile’s Santiago Sur ...

Sanchez named the bar after the final record by The Smiths—1987’s Strangeways, Here We Come. Strangeways is a prison in Manchester, England, famous for a 25-day riot in 1990. Adorned with ...