Police said Warren Abernathy, 41, was identified as the suspect in the death of Kristie Lee Murray, 49, following an ...

Clayton County Sheriff Levon Allen has publicly blamed his agency’s decades-old technology and poor training for last month’s mistaken release of a convicted killer, but a political rival says the ...

Emilio Joseph Lee Dial, 22, pleaded guilty Monday in Portage County Common Pleas Court to charges of rape ... the victim was another inmate in the jail. Dial quickly pleaded guilty, and Judge Mark ...

The Fayette County Jail could soon become one of the few facilities in the region to begin housing federal inmates. Fayette County Commissioners voted unanimously last week to enter into a ...

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 ...

Bush Administration to find suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the Sarasota County Jail’s population peaked at 880 inmates. It was the first big indication of a growing problem ...

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 ...

Two inmates at the Jasper County Detention Center have been accused of starting a fire in a holding cell last fall that destroyed the booking area of the jail, seriously injuring multiple inmates ...

Hot pots are now banned for inmates at the Sedgwick County Jail after an inmate threw scalding water at a detention deputy last week. “Inmates have traditionally had access to hot water for ...