Thousands of young men were physically or sexually assaulted at Medomsley Detention Centre between 1961 and 1987, with ...

The state supplied victims to the “worst sex offender in our history” as systemic failures allowed widespread physical and sexual abuse to continue unchecked at a youth detention centre, a major ...

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 ...

Medomsley Detention Centre was open between the 1960s and 1980s and for a long time operated a ‘short sharp shock’ regime for ...

An investigation into abuse of inmates at a youth detention centre in County Durham area has revealed a “systemic culture of physical abuse which became embedded as a practice of ‘short, sharp, shock, ...

As autumn turned to winter and snow fell, The Northern Echo covered a number of stories from S&DR200 to Maya's Law.

David, who is known as Alan to his friends, was 18 when he was sent to Medomsley, after being convicted of a burglary he said ...