A woman was sentenced to 40 years for the death of Theresa Zar at the Slidell City Jail. The adoptive parents of Zar's ...

The new 332-bed jail, in the works for at least a decade, promises updated infrastructure and programs aimed at reducing ...

SAN JOSE – An inmate died over the weekend at the Main Jail in San Jose, according to authorities. Deputies found the inmate ...

A 35-year-old woman awaiting trial on misdemeanor prostitution and drug charges was found dead in her jail cell. An ...

Hays County corrections officer John Duran was accused of sexual misconduct with a female inmate and also accused of lying on ...

A woman who was being held at the Sacramento County Main Jail has died after an apparent medical emergency, officials say.

When Raymond Mills was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center earlier this year, staff removed a bag of drugs from his ...

Dontrell Broderick Scott, 25, of Port Arthur, a corrections sergeant at the Jefferson County Correctional Facility in ...

With approval from the Fayette County commissioners and the county’s jail board, up to 30 federal inmates will be housed in ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A Jefferson County jailer has been indicted with official oppression following an incident at the jail where investigators say he allegedly assaulted an inmate.

An Oklahoma County Detention Center employee has been fired and arrested for negligence after a fight at the jail led to the ...

A violent Scots killer who brutally slit his victim's throat and battered another inmate with a pool cue behind bars has died ...