Early in the morning outside Cook County Jail, a group of new detainees stepped out of a Chicago police wagon and walked bleary-eyed into the bright sunlight before lining up inside against a ...

FEBRUARY AND APRIL. SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING AFTER A WOMAN INMATE IN THE COUNTY JAIL DIED. DEPUTIES SAY THEY FOUND THE 32 YEAR OLD WOMAN UNRESPONSIVE IN HER CELL LAST ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County jail is holding about 95 inmates arrested by ICE and slated for deportation. Mahoning County Sheriff Jerry Greene said the county will receive approximately $4.5 ...

Sheriff's Office officials have said they prefer to measure the population by the operational capacity. By that measure, the Sarasota County jail has been overcrowded for more than 20 years.

A 39-year-old inmate at the Athens-Clarke County Jail died Tuesday morning after being found unresponsive in his cell. Jail staff initiated life-saving measures and EMS transported the inmate to a ...

Carlton Alexander German, 38, and Jamari Tylik Williams, 22, both of Hardeeville, were charged Friday with first-degree arson ...

A 57-year-old woman died in Tarrant County Jail custody on Saturday, according to a press release from the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office. The statement did not name the woman, but an in ...

The cause of death for an inmate in the Athens-Clarke County Jail remained undetermined Wednesday. Clarke County Sheriff’s Public Information Officer Keith Sims identified the man as Torrance ...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WGN) — In an effort to enhance safety and crack down on smuggling, the Lake County jail will soon be moving to an electronic mail system. Jail officials announced in a Facebook ...

RICHMOND, Ind. — A local man is accused of smuggling a controlled substance into the Wayne County jail and sharing it with fellow inmates. Jakob Michael Wayne Gaddis, 25, of Dublin, was charged ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that all hot pots have been removed from the jail. The removal comes after an inmate threw scalding water on a detention ...

MACON, Ga. — Local leaders are raising new concerns about the conditions inside the Bibb County jail after an inmate was badly burned in an attack involving another inmate. According to the Bibb ...