Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey is facing scrutiny after a joint investigation found that inmates from the county jail labored his farm.

In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local sheriff and his associates, a new investigation found. McLain Farms in ...

In Mississippi, a sheriff accused of staffing his family ... acknowledged that Sheriff Bailey had sent inmates from the Rankin County jail to work at his mother’s farm, but said the inmates ...

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

Mississippi State Auditor Shad White confirmed Friday that he has opened an investigation into allegations that Rankin County ...

A Lowndes County corrections officer is accused of using inmate labor to steal scrap metal. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrested Randy Magers, 49, on Thursday, April 10 for multiple ...

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

Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers is warning the public of a scam in which people impersonating law enforcement call inmates’ families for money in exchange for the release of their loved ones.

After a sometimes raucous discussion, the Adams County Board of Supervisors chose a delegation of two supervisors, Adams ...