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 ...

Inmates at the region’s prisons will tuck into turkey dinners with all the trimmings, and enjoy mince pies and hot chocolates on Christmas day.

Drug use and violence at a Durham jail is thriving and attempts to solve the problem have been “insufficient”, prison inspectors have said. It comes as officers working at HMP Durham have slammed the ...

Sex offenders, violent partners, a serial burglar, a dangerous driver and the holder of a probibited firearm were among the offenders jailed ...