At 10pm Alshbli was found hanging in his cell. Paramedics who were already at HMP Durham due to a separate medical incident ...

A pensioner "ruined" two children's lives when he groped them as they played outside, a court has heard. Michael Moran, 74, ...

A former prisoner has claimed she only survived her time in jail thanks to a theatre company. Cheryl Byron was serving a ...

After a man remanded in HMP Durham took his own life the day he arrived, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has criticised ...

William Dawson, who was known as Billy the Bump, died at HMP Holme House after being transferred from HMP Durham for end of ...

A report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has revealed that a disabled inmate was improperly restrained at HMP Durham.

The Prison and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) has criticised HMP Durham over the use of restraints on ill prisoners ...

Glen Adrian was found hanged in his cell on March 8, last year, at HMP Durham. The 27-year-old was the seventh prisoner to take his life at the prison in three years and the fourth in four months ...

A major drug dealer who was caught importing MDMA into the UK and was later part of a gang smuggling illicit goods into ...

HMP Durham has once again been criticised over its use of restraints on ill prisoners after a double amputee with "severely limited mobility" was taken to hospital restrained. A Prisons and ...

Shaun Mason, 34, was serving a 16 year jail term for dealing when he and five others, including a prison nurse, conspired to import drugs into HMP Durham and HMP Northumberland, Newcastle Crown ...

Convicted child rapist Rebecca Holloway, who was serving a 12-year sentence, has been found dead at HM Prison Low Newton in ...