Safety at Drake Hall prison has reached a crisis point, new figures suggest. It comes as a workers' union has warned the increase of violence in prisons across England is "totally out of control".

Ann-Marie Pyle battered 77-year-old William Pyle with a poker and repeatedly stabbed him, 'in revenge' for her mother’s death ...

A Bishop Auckland woman who stabbed her own dad to death with knives, a poker and a walking stick died from heart disease in prison.

The killer, who was tormented by acute psychosis due to cannabis use, scrawled "Bin Laden did this" in felt tip pen on the living room wall before setting his house on fire in 2001. Pyle, who was ...