BELLEVILLE - The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department has initiated an investigation into the death of a 38-year-old male ...

Illinois State Police are investigating the death of a detainee at the St. Clair County Jail in Belleville. Sheriff’s ...

People with mental illnesses are far likelier to be victims than to commit crimes. But a small number of unprovoked, midday ...

About 100 people a day are held in county detention centers throughout the state while they await transfer to a state ...

Daniel Mitchell, 42, pleaded guilty Dec. 23 to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an inmate only referred to in court ...

As Montana lawmakers consider how much to reimburse county jails for holding inmates waiting for a bed at the Montana State ...

Joseph Paul Adams, 44, of Surry, is expected to plead guilty to numerous charges stemming from the Oct. 5 road rage shooting.

Jackson Maes, 27, died by suicide alone in his cell and no deputy checked on him for more than eight hours, his mother ...

At a recent Great Falls City Commission Work Session, Judge Steve Bolstad made statements towards the Cascade County Jail booking project, raising concern to reductions in inmate intakes and ...

The Johnson County Board of Supervisors and the Iowa City Council are working to study the feasibility of constructing a ...

A Burlington man is in jail after police say he was caught masturbating while watching elementary and middle school girls ...

A lawsuit brought by a former Warren County Regional Jail inmate claiming that he was blinded in one eye after being kicked by a deputy jailer during a struggle should be dismissed, an attorney for ...