One of the four people who escaped from the Bibb County Jail in 2023 was given a life sentence in Macon federal court Tuesday ...

Nevada prosecutors have filed multiple charges against 20 defendants over the incident, including first-degree murder and ...

Content warning: Discussions of murder, rape, and assault. Recently, we featured stories from formerly incarcerated people ...

What we’re talking about here is not controversial. What we’re talking about here is upholding the law,” one county ...

Because of several departures of corrections officers, the Clearfield County Jail is again understaffed, causing higher overtime expenses.

Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and prisons whose populations have continued to grow after dip ...

On Tuesday night, the Bureau County Board voted against housing some inmates from the Cook County Department of Corrections.

Local governments and insurers paid over $60 million to resolve and defend hundreds of jail-related claims in the last five ...

Inmate firefighters housed in California's county jails and state prisons would earn an hourly wage of up to $19 under ...

An overnight power failure at the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility triggered a police response Wednesday night.

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy at Men's Central Jail was stabbed in the head when he tried to pull aside an inmate, ...

Deputy Michael Meiser, assigned to a specialized sheriff's department unit that monitored gang activity inside the jail ...