A San Francisco Sheriff’s Office deputy has been fired after alleged sexual misconduct with an incarcerated person in a jail ...

Over the last five years, the number of people released from the Cook County jail late at night has steadily increased.

Incarcerated individuals have long been putting their lives in danger to help battle some of California’s largest wildland ...

INDIANAPOLIS ( WXIN/WTTV) — Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez has been discharged from an Indianapolis hospital. A short ...

The population in America’s big jails and state prisons plunged by 170,000 this spring amid the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters has found in a survey of facilities around the country. All told, ...

Matthew Loflin was coughing up blood, struggling to breathe and losing consciousness in his cell while awaiting trial on drug-possession charges in this historic Southern city.

REDWOOD CITY – An inmate’s death last week at a Redwood City jail is being investigated as a drug-related homicide, ...

The facilities include a 16,300-square-foot mental health facility and a 38,837-square-foot medium security vocational training center.

ATLANTA (AP) — The only escaped Louisiana inmate who remained on the run following an audacious May jailbreak in which 10 men ...

San Diego County has been under intense scrutiny for years over its unusually high number of in-custody deaths.

The Sheriff's Department said the correctional officer used a medical appointment as a pretense to take the female inmate, but actually took her to Olivehurst, which is where the sexual assault ...

A female inmate at the Yuba County Jail reported to staff that she was sexually assaulted by Matthew Troy Babb, a ...