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

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

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 ...

The McCracken County Sheriff's Office states that the investigation determined the deputy jailer was having inappropriate sexual contact with the female inmate and gave her items that he was not ...

The cause? A faulty light fixture. Fire Marshal Nathan Green and Fire Marshal Laci Pierse confirmed that the fire started ...

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

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey is under investigation over allegations that he used inmates for labor on his family farm.

The Senate State and Local Government Committee advanced a bill that would give Shelby County voters a chance to decide on a ...

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

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

A Shelby County Jail inmate, Courtney Berry, was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead on Sunday. Berry's death marks at least the fifth inmate death at the overcrowded facility this year. The ...