A Utah committee met with service providers Thursday to discuss a new 1,300-bed facility. One community leader is calling for ...

As Hinds County deals with massive overcrowding at the Raymond Detention Center, progress is being made on the new facility ...

Detectives from the Pierce County Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) unit arrested a man and a woman last week for ...

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner is living in a woodland lair following his release from prison. The 49-year-old ...

Kansas City councilmembers approved a development plan Thursday for a temporary jail to meet increased public safety needs ...

Allegheny County will reopen a winter homeless shelter on Pittsburgh’s North Side, providing 140 beds, as estimates of unsheltered population rise above 300.

In the blistering Arizona desert, Tent City Jail housed inmates outdoors in military tents under 145 °F heat—built by Joe Arpaio in 1993 as a symbol of “tough on crime.” For over two decades it ...

Officials reported that inmates Brandon Brunet & Cecil Michael Stratton escaped from the Berwick Police Department Jail on ...

Judy Bertuso feeds her husband Apollo in a tent on a basketball court in Quezon City. Apollo, 65, is recovering from a stroke ...

A Daly City woman pleaded no contest to bringing drugs into the county jail after the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office was unable to prove the driving under the influence charge with which ...

The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit by the city of Birmingham against Jefferson County Sheriff Mark Pettway, upholding that the Jefferson County Jail is not legally ...