Daniel Khalife was met with cheers and back-slapping from fellow inmates who congratulated him on his dramatic escape after ...

Keijuane Hester has gone from being behind bars to baking up a dream. The Durham native is preparing to serve thousands ...

A former prisoner has claimed she only survived her time in jail thanks to a Newcastle theatre company.Cheryl Byron was ...

HMP Durham has once again been criticised over its use of restraints on ill prisoners after a double amputee with "severely limited mobility" was taken to hospital restrained. A Prisons and ...

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

Convicted child rapist Rebecca Holloway, who was serving a 12-year sentence, has been found dead at HM Prison Low Newton in ...

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

A report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has revealed that a disabled inmate was improperly restrained at HMP Durham.

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

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 ...