Under pressure from consent decrees, lawsuits and grand jury recommendations, Southern California counties take measures to ...

Jail administrators in L.A., Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties struggle to meet the needs of a population that is ...

Deputies in Chowan County are searching for an inmate who escaped from the Chowan County Detention Center on Sunday night, ...

Few things could be worse than ending up in jail; few jobs tougher than guarding the incarcerated. They’re troubled, they’re ...

Authorities swiftly recaptured escaped inmate Charles Edward Babb after a tense overnight search in Edenton, urging caution ...

An inmate at the Butler County Prison is facing charges after a correctional officer found Suboxone during the booking process. Allen Griffin, of Oil City, was charged Wednesday, Dec. 10, with two ...

California’s Truth Act requires San Luis Obispo County to host a community forum if the Sheriff’s Office transfers inmates to ...

The Edenton Police Department and Chowan County Sheriff’s Office say an intensive overnight search has ended after an escaped ...

A North Carolina woman had a shocking discovery in the morning before heading to work — an escaped inmate was hiding out in ...

A 33-year-old Ocoee woman allegedly sexually abused a child, created explicit materials, and shared them with a convicted ...

An Orleans Parish district judge handed down two life sentences to Derrick Groves, the New Orleans inmate who had spent ...

A San Rafael-based press freedom advocacy group is suing Riverside County for alleged violations of a state law intended to ensure timely access to documents tied to in-custody deaths, based on ...