Understaffing, aging infrastructure, and more inmate assaults are all issues plaguing the Durham County Detention Center.

And with about a quarter of the people held at the Durham jail in 2016 there on bonds of $5,000 or less, local activists are calling for Durham to join the growing number of jurisdictions ...

Nonprofit Emancipate NC is suing the Durham County Sheriff's Office for withholding public records on jail policies. The nonprofit argues the redactions prevent proper oversight of jail conditions ...

An open letter from Durham community activists raises concerns about Durham County jail detainees being kept in their cells for 21 to 23 hours a day during the pandemic. Scott Sharpe ssharpe@ ...

Eight inmates at the Durham County jail tested positive for COVID-19 this weekend, the second outbreak at the jail where eight detention officers tested positive this spring and one later died.

Less than two months after the Durham County Sheriff’s Office charged two former employees, accusing them of having sex with an inmate, it has charged another two workers for separate crimes involving ...

Obituary for Dawn Tucker Prior to the fatal crash, Blackmon was in and out of Durham County jail over the course of two decades, with his first charge stemming from a 2001 larceny case.

DURHAM (WTVD) -- The Durham County Sheriff's Office said Thursday that security has been stepped up after a shooting incident in an entry area to the jail earlier this month. Officers can now use ...

A detainee who died in a hospital June 30 had been found in the jail trying to kill himself, the Durham County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. Erick Antonio Cano-Castellanos, 39, was booked ...

Prison officers in high-security facilities, like HMP Frankland in Durham, are to be issued with body armour after a string ...

In Locke’s arrest warrant, she’s accused of providing components of a mobile phone to an inmate at the Durham County jail on 219 S Mangum St. in August. The identified inmate is the same as ...