The Polk County Sheriff's Office recently settled a lawsuit over the death of Shaun Seaman, who was killed by a violent ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California issued a report Thursday critical of the Orange County Jail system for not doing enough to prevent in-custody deaths. The report examines 119 ...

Local elected officials are speaking out against ICE potentially scouting a new detention site in Central Florida ...

A work-release inmate who has been on the run since September has been re-arrested in Mississippi. Christopher Delcambre, 51, was found at a homeless encampment in Mississippi. Deputies and local law ...

A prosecutor has told a jury that a prison guard should be convicted of manslaughter for failing to intervene in the brutal ...

Consultants and planning staff for the new Lancaster County prison project recommended Thursday that the county commissioners ...

A former jailer for the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office pleaded guilty to having a sexual relationship with an inmate and ...

Georgia corrections officials say fighting at a state prison left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 ...

At least five inmates were injured Monday night in stabbing attacks at Hancock State Prison near Sparta, local and state ...

NORTH CHARLESTON — A man’s death in the Charleston County jail went weeks without disclosure until the coroner’s office released his name. Mark Walker, 61, died at about 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 6 while ...

The ICE agents detained her anyway, leaving her family uncertain of her whereabouts for at least 24 hours. Her father called ...

A 46-year-old man died on Monday while in custody at Riverside County jail, the sheriff's department said. Deputies found Quadir Boykin, 46, of Menifee, unresponsive in a housing unit cell at 12:40 ...