The ceremony held at the jail symbolized the role education can play in personal redemption and societal renewal.

Sheriff Chris Swanson, other department heads, and the members of the Board of Commissioners plan to meet privately to ...

Batavia, N.Y. — A minor disturbance at the Genesee County Jail Wednesday morning reportedly led to authorities using pepper spray during a routine search of a housing unit. We're told an inmate ...

OXFORD, England. (WNEM) - Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson is on the other side of the pond discussing his jail’s IGNITE program, which helps inmates gain skills and education in the hopes ...

Inmates in the Liberty County Jail will be relocated to other contracted facilities after the state ordered the jail’s operations to be immediately suspended. The jail in the county northeast of ...

LIBERTY COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- State officials are ordering the Liberty County Jail to shut down, citing longstanding life-threatening conditions. A state order issued Friday obtained by ABC13 ...

PERRY FACES UP TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON. A WARNING TONIGHT ABOUT A NEW SCAM THAT COULD COST YOU MONEY. THE POLK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS IT TARGETS FAMILIES OF PEOPLE WHO ARE RECENTLY IN THE ...

Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — The Linn County Jail last weekend began housing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement inmates through a previously established agreement with ...

Harvard released a study on the IGNITE program at the Genesee County Jail last year, and that study will be published in the “Quarterly Journal of Economics” in its May 2025 issue. Previous ...

The new Wood County Jail is open, and inmates have been transferred to the new facility. The new courthouse entrance is now open to the public. Demolition of the old jail will begin soon ...

The death of Sherburne County Jail inmate Damon Antone Young, 49, was caused by natural causes. Sherburne County spokesperson David Unze told the St. Cloud Times Monday that Young died from ...

FLINT, MI – From the first day the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office moved into the jail on Saginaw Street in 1988, the jail has faced overcrowding issues. But now, for the first time in at ...