The future of Dartmoor prison is set to be decided when the government ... according to the UK Health Security Agency. Follow BBC Devon on X, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to ...

Devon, was costing the local economy millions of pounds. A Prison Service spokesperson said it was continuing to take advice from specialists to explore how HMP Dartmoor could be "reopened as ...

Consider the infamous 'mad axeman', a figure whose escape from the imposing Dartmoor Prison almost 60 years ago remains etched in local lore. Frank Mitchell, serving a life term, eluded capture by ...

Consider the infamous 'mad axeman', a figure whose escape from the imposing Dartmoor Prison almost 60 years ago remains etched in local lore. Frank Mitchell, serving a life term, eluded capture by ...

A PRINCETOWN man has been given a suspended prison sentence for assaulting two fellow inmates at Dartmoor Prison.

A Dartmoor inmate who attacked and held a prison officer at knifepoint is set to be sentenced later this year. Scott Patterson, of no fixed abode but hailing from Newton Abbot, appeared at ...