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 theatre company. Cheryl Byron was serving a ...

The Prison and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) has criticised HMP Durham over the use of restraints on ill prisoners ...

Ahmed Alshbli, 35, was found in his cell at HMP Durham on November 2, 2022, after being remanded in prison earlier that day for offences including harassment and assault on his partner. It was his ...

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

Ahmed Alshbli, 35, was found in his cell at HMP Durham on November 2, 2022, after being remanded in prison earlier that day for offences including harassment and assault on his partner.

Injury claims from staff who were assaulted by inmates at a County Durham prison have cost more than £1.3 million. Since 2019, claims made by prison staff at HMP Frankland, in Brasside ...

A man remanded in a County Durham prison for a string of harassment and assault offences attempted to take his own life just hours later, before later dying in hospital. Ahmed Alshbli arrived at ...

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 Probation ...

A North East prison has been criticised after staff cuffed a double amputee with 'severely limited mobility'. HMP Durham has once again come under fire for its use of restraints on sick inmates ...