A nurse has been struck off after she was handed a nine-month suspended sentence in January 2025 for smuggling a phone into HMP Durham ...

Prisoners inside the overcrowded HMP Durham have been making drugs with shower gel and toothpaste, it has been revealed. Overcrowding, increased violence, self harm incidents and a growing drug market ...

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A convicted rapist who repeatedly stabbed another Durham Prison inmate with a shank while waiting to be sentenced has been locked up for a ...

HMP Durham has received a damning report saying it has "significant problems" with drugs, violence, and "worryingly" high levels of self-harm and drug-related deaths. Durham became a reception prison ...

New US inspired supermax units are to be introduced in UK prisons to house extremist inmates following the alleged attack on three prison guards at HMP Durham Frankland in 2025 by Manchester Arena ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. County Durham predator taxi driver David Greaves has died in HMP Rye Hill just eighteen months into his 15 year sentence. (Image: ...