Stronger prison checks have been brought in across the country following the mistaken release of a prisoner from HMP Durham ...

The Government has refused to comment on whether the prisoner mistakenly released from HMP Durham is back in custody.

An officer at a notorious detention centre for young offenders was "possibly the most prolific sex offender in British history", an inquiry has concluded. Neville Husband was jailed in 2003 for ...

Ninety-one prisoners have been freed by mistake since April this year, it has been revealed. Data, released by the Ministry of Justice on Tuesday (November 11), reveals 91 inmates were accidentally ...

In a horrific finding, a report has revealed that a prison officer and caterer in a youth detention centre, who was referred ...

The union claimed there had been five releases made in error in the same week that migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu was set ...

Ministers are being urged to end the old fashioned ‘two in a cell’ policy which means most inmates at a North East prison are forced to share a room. HMP Durham’s Independent Monitoring Board (IMP) ...

There were missed opportunities to help an anxious prisoner who was found hanged in his cell after fearing he was under threat, a report has concluded. Mark Mason was remanded at Durham prison after ...

A child rapist was found dead in his cell after fearing he would be attacked by fellow inmates once his horrific crimes became known. Brian Jordan, 60, took his own life just days after being locked ...