David Lancaster died by suicide two days after he was released from HMP Durham, a Prisons and Probation Ombudsman report has ...

Fewer full-time staff were working at County Durham prison last year, new figures show. It comes as the prison workforce across England and Wales hit an all-time high. But a union raised concerns over ...

Hundreds of Durham prisoners have been let out of jail under the Government’s early release scheme to tackle overcrowding in prisons, new figures show. The scheme was launched as an emergency measure ...

Data, released by the Ministry of Justice on Tuesday (November 11), reveals 91 inmates were accidentally released between April 1 and October 31. It comes just weeks after reports a prisoner from HMP ...

Success tackling a prison's "entrenched drug culture" has been limited despite the best efforts of staff, a watchdog has found.

Illicit substances remain 'too easily available' at HMP Deerbolt in County Durham despite determined efforts by staff to tackle an 'entrenched ...

More than two years after a federal jury awarded Darryl Howard $6 million for spending nearly 24 years incarcerated after a faulty police investigation, Howard was finally able to cash a settlement ...