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

Ex-convict Michael Ta'Bon has set up an outdoor jail 'cell' where he intends to stay for the whole of February to preach a gospel of non-violence to passers-by.

The city jail didn’t fare any better, and by the 1890s even the police chief had begun complaining about the cramped quarters in the West 2nd Street building, which now held several hundred men ...

Ex-convict Michael Ta'Bon is back in a prison of his own making. Literally. Ta'Bon, who served nearly a decade behind bars for armed robbery, says divine inspiration has led him to preach a gospel ...

PHILADELPHIA - Ex-convict Michael Ta'Bon is back in a prison of his own making. Literally. Ta'Bon, who served nearly a decade behind bars for armed robbery, says divine inspiration has led him to ...

Full field tests at a state prison in Virginia, are set for later this year. The research was funded by the U.S. National Institute of Justice. Some privately run prisons in the U.K. use in-cell ...

The prison officially closed in 1998 and inmates were moved outside the city for safety reasons. Only a year later, in 1999, the Jail Hotel was open for business.