A trial date has been set for a man accused of attempting to murder an inmate with a hammer at a maximum security prison.

All the planned road closures and roadworks in the region including Newcastle, Sunderland and Durham for the week beginning ...

Emanuel Bedford was found guilty of murdering Deidre Reid in 2021 and sentenced to life without parole after a four-day trial ...

A Chesterfield County jury on Thursday found a man guilty of murder and grand larceny in the death of a South Carolina mother from 2021. The trial for Emanuel Bedford ended on Thursday, June 19 after ...

HM Prison Full Sutton has a solid claim to be the UK’s most notorious jail. ... At Bedford, staffing shortages meant they had given up on drugs testing altogether. This, ...

A new exhibition by the UK’s best-known prison arts charity Koestler Arts showcases artwork, music and writing made in criminal justice settings in the North East of England.. Almost Home has been ...

HM Prison Winchester has ‘high levels of violence’ and is damaged ... Bedford, Wandsworth, Rochester and Manchester jails as well as Cookham Wood young offender institution. ...

Winchester is the ninth prison to be issued with an urgent notification since November 2022, joining Exeter, Woodhill, Bristol, Bedford, Wandsworth, Rochester and Manchester jails as well as ...

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor wrote in November 2023 that inmates at Bedford Prison were violent and often housed in mouldy and graffiti-covered cells, with broken windows.

A VICTORIAN prison holding almost double its capacity of prisoners is suffering rising violence, prison inspectors found today. HMP Bedford has a capacity for 500 prisoners but holds 900. HM ...

The number of people in prison in England and Wales reached a record high on Friday of 88,521, according to the Ministry of Justice, compared with operational capacity in the entire estate of 89,543.