A first-person account of arrests, sedition charges and NSA detention in Manipur, revealing how free speech and dissent are ...

Local mayors in Oklahoma County are opposing a sales tax proposal to fund a new county jail, despite the proposal being ...

Local elected officials are speaking out against ICE potentially scouting a new detention site in Central Florida ...

If you go to jail, you probably expect to spend a whole lot of time being told what to do. For a group of inmates at the ...

Detroit — Demolition of the former Wayne County Jail is underway as part of a planned redevelopment of the area east of Greektown into a life sciences district. Crews began razing the former jail, ...

A routine facility check at a county jail just east of Atlanta on Monday morning suddenly turned into a manhunt after officials discovered three men, all accused of violent crimes, had escaped the ...

A 40-year-old Tarrant County Jail inmate died Sunday, according to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office. The woman was found unresponsive in her cell. Lifesaving measures were administered by medical ...

Nick Reiner is being held in America’s largest mental health jail, which is notorious for its rat-infested and urine-soaked “inhumane” conditions — a far cry from the Brentwood mansion he lived in ...

Inmates facing violent criminal charges escaped from a Louisiana jail by removing concrete blocks from a degraded part of a wall, authorities said. The escape was discovered the morning of Dec. 3 at ...

Family members fear inmates may not survive the Clayton County Jail. A mother says her son was stabbed ten times and lost two fingers. A civil rights group calls the jail "inhumane" and ...

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top. By Brian HoweyMukta Joshi ...