Bryan Bailey, the Mississippi sheriff whose department had been under federal investigation for torturing people, staffed his ...

A 29-year-old fugitive is on the run in Cook County after removing his electronic monitoring device, authorities said.

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a 29-year-old fugitive who removed his electronic monitoring system in ...

Now in its second decade, the Cook County Jail chess program is thriving, competing internationally and above all — it’s ...

Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from a Los Angeles County facility Friday night. Deshon R. Daniels, 26, was serving his sentence at the Male Community Reentry Program facility ...

An inmate's death at the Anoka County Jail is under investigation, officials said Tuesday. The man "was being attended to by detention staff when he collapsed," Anoka County said. The collapse ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Out of the nearly 1,200 inmates inside the Madison County Jail, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has identified 45 of them as being undocumented immigrants.

The Atlanta City Council Public Safety Committee voted to hold a resolution that would have started an exit strategy to remove Fulton County inmates from the city jail. The four-year temporary ...

A Davenport man who exploded a pipe bomb in a boat parked on a Davenport residential street will remain in prison until 2032, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution ... James Myers at the officer’s shed in Calhoun County in July 2004. Myers had just returned from an out ...