How large should Fond du Lac County’s next jail be? A new study examines future bed needs, alternatives to incarceration and ...

The Clark County Council is moving forward with a proposed $344 million partial rebuild of the county jail, balancing ...

A former prison administrator tasked with running Dayton Correctional Institution’s medical department resigned from her post ...

Every time someone is arrested on a municipal offense and stays in the Douglas County Jail for more than four hours, the ...

A prison staff member who shared information about an inmate with a friend has been jailed for 21 months. Courtney Harrison, an administrative staff member at HMP Moorland, near Doncaster, shared ...

"What was supposed to be an eight-year sentence became a life sentence. RIP Gerry. I know it was too late to save him, but ...

Few concrete answers are known yet as to how an inmate takeover and hostage situation transpired on Monday at a jail in ...

On April 8, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department announced it was investigating the death of an inmate who was found ...

Twenty-two inmate deaths were classified as homicides between 2024 and 2025, accounting for almost half of all inmate ...

Nevada is spending millions more on medical care in prisons, as state officials acknowledge they don't have the staff to meet ...

The ruling for inmates languishing in San Francisco jail was celebrated as a landmark. Now some lawyers say it was "wrong." ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An unspecified incident at a prison in southeastern Colorado on Saturday left two inmates dead, injured a third and triggered a statewide freeze on prison ...