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 ...

They claim Tyson used his influence to get sex and drugs inside the Durham County jail, and even coordinate drug deals outside of it with an illegal cell phone. A then-Durham County detention ...

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.

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 ...

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@ ...

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, North Carolina (WTVD) -- The new jail director at the Durham County Detention Center wants the jail to become accredited. Sheriff Mike Andrews says he feels Colonel Anthony Prignano is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...