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 ...

Shaun Mason, two other prisoners and a prison nurse have now all been sentenced for their part in a criminal plot to get ...

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 former Republican Tennessee lawmaker says President Donald Trump has pardoned him two weeks into his 21-month prison ...

A former Durham University director who sexually assaulted two sleeping women has been jailed. Andrew Harston had denied four ...

Andrew Harston from Durham will spend 14 years in prison after he was found guilty of four counts of sexual assault which took place in his ...