Sheriff Gerald Sticker says the new $250,000 X-ray scanner is part of a security overhaul in his first year on the job.

When Flathead County Justice of Peace Eric Hummel decides whether an individual charged with a crime will be held in the ...

Signs of squalor are everywhere: inmates sleeping on floors, rotting food, piles of trash, inoperable toilets, broken pipes, ...

Cuyahoga County officials say no one incarcerated in the jail needed treatment for heat illness. People inside say it was ...

More than 700 inmates and prison staff gathered last week at the John H Lilley Correctional Center in Boley, Oklahoma, for an outreach event led by Victory Christian Center, one of Tulsa s largest ...

Edward Kelley faced a separate prosecution for targeting federal agents while he was being investigated for his role in the ...

Guards doing their routine rounds of the building found Turner, 31, hanging from a part of his cell around 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, said Cheryl Bolton, a prison spokeswoman.

IT’S 4am and I have been struggling to sleep all night owing to the pain of lying on the hard concrete floor, scratching bed bug bites and overcrowding in the cell. Now, some sleep is finally ...

Edward Kelley faced a separate prosecution for targeting federal agents while he was being investigated for his role in the ...

Rights activists in Iran fear intensified crackdowns following Israel's military campaign targeting Iran's nuclear program.

Evin Prison was hit by Israeli airstrikes the day before a ceasefire ended a 12-day war with Iran. The damage is much greater ...

Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was found not guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking Wednesday but convicted of a less ...