A former Fulton County jail guard has been indicted on federal civil rights charges. Prosecutors say she used her Taser ...

A corrections officer agreed to plead guilty to federal charges in the case of a mentally ill man who froze to death in an Alabama jail. Braxton Kee is the 14th employee who has been indicted or ...

United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Johnathan D. Ross, has announced Larry Douglas Cossey, a ...

On Tuesday, Sheriff Andre Brunson confirmed to WSFA 12 News that his jail is “uninhabitable” and that it’s been closed for ...

RICHMOND, Va. — An inmate at the Richmond City Jail died on Monday, according to a notification from the Sheriff's Office. "The cause of death is unknown and will be determined by the Office of ...

The jail saw more than 60 deaths between 2009 and October 2022, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation — the highest total for any jail in Georgia during that time.

City and state officials have pointed to multiple security lapses in the jail. Louisiana authorities named the latest inmates who were recaptured as Lenton Vanburen, Leo Tate and Jermaine Donald. Jail ...

Amid the ongoing manhunt for five escaped Orleans Parish Correctional Facility inmates, a repeat escapee broke out of another jail in a nearby Louisiana parish. The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's ...

Three more inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail earlier this month have been captured, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Monday. Two escapees remain at large. Inmate Lenton ...

Hunt, who was born in 1960 and came to death row in 1990, is now among the longest-serving inmates on Alabama's death row. He said prison became his “hospital” to heal his broken mind.

And I think females bring kind of a different edge to the jail culture,” Lieutenant Melissa Last, who's worked with inmates at the Al Cannon Detention Center for over a decade, said.