Sheriff Gerald Sticker says the new $250,000 X-ray scanner is part of a security overhaul in his first year on the job.

MONROE COUNTY, Tennessee — Monroe County credits new technology with saving lives in the jail. It's a full-body scanner, similar to the ones used to check airline passengers run through at security.

Lancaster County Sheriff's Sgt. Jason Mayo wishes he'd had the department's brand-new portable X-ray scanner a few months ago. Over the summer, Mayo got a tip that a specific car — a late-model ...

At the Monroe County Jail, two corrections officers are out of a job after being accused of bringing drugs into the jail for ...

Best practices in contraband deterrence include a range of layered security measures: robust drug testing programs, routine announced and unannounced searches, K-9 search teams, X-ray machines ...

MACON, Ga. — Contraband has long been an issue in Georgia prisons, and last month, a federal indictment charged 23 people with buying or providing drugs, cellphones and more banned items in ...