New records show what happened to some of the former prisoners after state leaders chose to shrink a prison population ...

A recent class action lawsuit from the MacArthur Justice Center sheds light on how extreme heat creates life-threatening ...

An inmate at the Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail was discovered hanging from a vent in his cell Tuesday in what was the second death in the same day at the facility. William C. Cash, 39, was found ...

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No question Sheriff Mike Buehler is trying to improve conditions there. But needy KC inmates should still be back here. From: ...

Christian Black’s death in an Ohio jail after being held in a restraint chair mirrors two other fatal cases. His family is ...

Early Monday morning, the inmate got out of his cell at the L.C. Knight Detention Center. Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office ...

It’s an unspoken rule in state prisons that staff and inmates should avoid drinking the water, current and former inmates ...

Canastota, N.Y. — A Madison County woman was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for selling methamphetamine and other drugs out of her garage alongside her husband, prosecutors said.

He continued to vomit and faded “in and out of consciousness ... they wheeled him into the jail’s booking area and brought him into a detox holding cell, the complaint says.

When someone accused of a crime in this small northwestern Montana town needs mental health care, chances are they’ll be locked in a basement jail cell the ... He stretched out his arms, his ...