A study by the Howard League for Prison Reform shows that there are now more people behind bars than there were when the ...

A New York resident was sentenced to roughly four years in prison for defrauding at least 17 victims with scams, including ...

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

A County Durham robber who "frogmarched" a vulnerable victim to a cash machine has been jailed. Lee Dunn, 39, followed his ...

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

Callum Brown, 32, of no fixed abode, Spennymoor, was issued with a CBO on February 18 and was arrested for breaching it twice ...

A former Durham University director has been jailed for sexually assaulting two women whilst they were asleep. Andrew Harston ...

During the investigation it was revealed that Mason had been working with two other prisoners, Allen, 33 and Wilson, 35 to brings drugs into both HMP Northumberland and HMP Durham. Further ...

A man took advantage of a young woman’s drunken condition to carry out a rape attack which began as the victim was sleeping off the effects ...

Exclusive: Prisoners trapped under indefinite jail terms continuing to take their own lives, say campaigners, as government ...

Josue Alejandro Quintanilla-Reyes is charged with shooting, killing Ricardo Baez Cardenas in a suspected road rage incident.

A judge said Andrew Harston has two sides to him; one the hardworking, charitable, religious man - the other a 'darker side' ...