A prisoner has been charged with attempted murder after a 'serious' assault at a Durham prison. Damien Bendall, has been charged following the assault at Frankland prison on Friday, May 10, last year.

An "extremely dangerous" inmate who carried out a string of attacks on prison officers with self-made plastic weapons has been sentenced. Aklakar Rahman, 38, repeatedly attacked staff at HMS Swaleside ...

A man has admitted threatening to kill his MP for a second time.Benjamin Clarke, 31, messaged Bishop Auckland's Sam Rushworth ...

Drugs are "too easily available" at a prison where almost 40% of drug tests came back positive, a watchdog has warned. HMP ...

U.S. officials in court filings say that tattoos worn by Venezuelan migrants are ample reason for their removal to a notorious Salvadoran prison. Family members and advocates say immigration ...

Grondeau, who turns 35 next week, was arrested in Shiraz, southern Iran, in October 2022 and sentenced to five years in prison for "conspiracy against the Islamic republic". His family rejected ...

Cheryl Byron was serving a two-year prison sentence for drugs offences at HMP Low Newton, near Durham, when she was introduced to Open Clasp in 2013. Before she began working with the group she ...

The man at the centre of a police manhunt after escaping from a prison van faked a medical emergency before overpowering guards. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post ...

Jamie Cooper was being transported to Lancaster Magistrates Court in a GEOAmey prison van on the M55 this morning. At 8:54am this morning, Lancashire Police received a report of a man absconding ...