SAFETY and welfare standards at a secure training centre where a teenager died after an unlawful use of force have been rated satisfactory in a report published yesterday.Read
A MOTHER’S six-year fight for justice was rewarded yesterday when a jury returned a damning verdict on practices at a County Durham secure unit for damaged children.Read
UNLAWFUL restraining of “vulnerable children” was rife at a County Durham institution where a young boy killed himself, an inquest heard yesterday.Read
A BOY was left unattended locked in his cell with his face covered in blood after being “restrained” by four male guards, an inquest into his death heard yesterday.Read
A 14-YEAR-OLD boy who was the youngest person to die in a Durham prison was treated unlawfully by prison guards just hours before he hanged himself, an inquest heard.Read
A SECOND inquest begins today into how a 14-year-old boy hanged himself at a County Durham secure unit and became Britain's youngest person to die in a penal institution in modern times.Read