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

Early in the morning outside Cook County Jail, a group of new detainees stepped out of a Chicago police wagon and walked bleary-eyed into the bright sunlight before lining up inside against a ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Ind. — A local man is accused of smuggling a controlled substance into the Wayne County jail and sharing it with fellow inmates. Jakob Michael Wayne Gaddis, 25, of Dublin, was charged ...

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 ...

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 ...

By that measure, the Sarasota County jail has been overcrowded for more than 20 years. Through the first quarter of 2025, the jail’s average daily population (ADP) has been 1,129. The jail ...

county commissioners are moving to take the jail away from Sheriff Jim Raymond. Raymond said in a news release Tuesday afternoon that he was not included in the process and likened it to a ...

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 ...

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 ...