In October 2014 a prison officer at HMYOI Wetherby was awarded £56,500 in compensation after an inmate attempted to gouge his eyes out, which he said made him feel forced to retire.

A prison officer was taken to hospital after reportedly being stabbed in the head by an inmate at a young offenders' institution.

Wetherby youth prison locked down after five staff attacked. By The Newsroom. ... Almost 300 offenders were kept locked in their cells at HMYOI Wetherby after five members of staff were assaulted ...

A prison watchdog says there are "concerning" levels of violence at a young offenders institute near Leeds. ... HMYOI Wetherby is a closed facility for up to 276 boys under the age of 18.

Wetherby Young Offender Institution holds some of the most complex and vulnerable young prisoners, inspectors say. A vulnerable girl in a young offenders institution twice had her clothes removed ...

Nearly half of the children at Wetherby have previously been in council care and the site has the “highest rate of self-harm of any prison in the country”, with officers often having to ...

Male prison guards who stripped a vulnerable teenage girl have been criticised by the prisons ... which is why HMYOI Wetherby is providing additional training to staff on self-harm and ...

Even the black ballpoint pens are inscribed: “HMYOI Keppel: There to Care”. “A bit cheesy,” grins Styles, “but we like that here.” The newest of Wetherby’s buildings, Keppel was built two years ago to ...

Physical education instructor at HMYOI Wetherby puts her strength to the test in Gladiators TV series. Story by lucy thompson ... The 33-year-old joined the prison service back in 2016, ...

Wetherby saw almost 900 incidents of self-harm in the space of a year - the highest of any prison in England and Wales - and more than half were accounted for by the three girls.