Most Adams County supervisors acknowledged the need for a new county jail, but all seem doubtful one will be built anytime ...

Years of issues at the Raymond Detention Center led to the Hinds County Board of Supervisors deciding it's time to build something new.

El Salvador has offered to take in criminals deported from the US, including those with US citizenship, and house them in its ...

Bukele had offered to take in people deported from the US, regardless of their nationality, and house them in El Salvador's ...

The Biloxi High School sophomore committed suicide in her jail cell less than 24 hours after she was taken into custody.

"This is not a pleasant conversation or topic for anybody. It affects people. It affects families. But the law is the law.

The notorious prison complex, which houses some of the country's most dangerous gang members, could end up taking in ...

CECOT (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism) is a maximum security jail built a year ago by the ... has effectively become a dumping ground for inmates, with no releases so far—amounting ...

A former Hollywood actor has been found guilty of attacking his former partner the day after he was released from prison under a scheme to cut jail overcrowding ... going to Ms Usher’s flat ...

The location of O'Keith followed the finding of his partner in the murder, Benny Casey, who was located in a Mississippi jail, serving ... force in restraining the inmate, Casey Babovec.

The move escalates the state’s efforts to improve conditions in Harris County’s jail system, which has struggled to comply ...