According to an affidavit, Johnson on Jan. 8 grabbed a corrections officer in the Delaware County Jail "by the face and tried ...

Inmates facing violent criminal charges escaped from a Louisiana jail by removing concrete blocks from a degraded part of a wall, authorities said. The escape was discovered the morning of Dec. 3 at ...

CLINTON, Iowa — An inmate found unresponsive in the Clinton County Jail earlier this week has died, according to the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Bill Greenwalt said a correctional officer ...

A Clark County Detention Center inmate who was found dead inside a cell with an imprisoned Discovery Channel reality show star has been identified. Christopher Kelly, 42, was found dead inside a cell ...

Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a state prison inmate who was found unresponsive inside his cell at a ...

Joshua Butler, a convicted felon who escaped from Okfuskee County Jail on December 20, was fatally shot by Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers on Wednesday during a traffic stop, igniting concerns over ...

The federal lawsuit in Louisiana is the third to be filed in connection to Harris County Jail inmates who died after being outsourced to LaSalle Correctional Center, one of the privately owned ...

ROME (AP) — Instruments made from smugglers’ boats that brought migrants to Italy’s shores told their tale of desperation and redemption in a special performance at a prison in Milan on Saturday, in ...

Several people were hospitalized after a stabbing at the DC Jail on Saturday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department ...

Yes. Rev. Al Sharpton was arrested on May 1, 2001, and a federal judge sentenced him to 90 days in MDC Brooklyn, a federal jail in New York City. Sharpton was charged with trespassing on U.S. Navy ...

A federal jail with a documented history of power outages, staffing shortages and detainee complaints just got two more high-profile detainees. Former president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro and his ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The death of a man found unresponsive Tuesday morning in the Jefferson County Detention Facility is under investigation, sheriff’s officials said. Harvey ...