The recent jailbreak in New Orleans followed decades of dysfunction in the city's jail system and recent warnings that ...

More than 600 vents in cells at the Genesee County Jail have been targeted for removal -- a wholesale replacement that ...

(WKRC) - A jail entered lockdown after authorities realized a convicted murderer had gone missing from their care. 12 hours later he was found in a courthouse holding cell, having been ...

When officers investigated the situation further, they found Weaver inside the cell unresponsive. According to an original press release from the city jail, medical personnel tried to save Weaver ...

President Donald J. Trump's latest brainstorm du jour is to reopen the federal prison on Alcatraz Island where he plans to incarcerate America's most dangerous criminals. This despite the opinion ...

A Coweta County inmate, 41-year-old Alan Caswell, was found dead in his jail cell on May 4 after reportedly hanging himself with a bedsheet. Detention officers and EMS attempted life-saving ...

WALTON COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - The Walton County Sheriff’s Office says a man arrested for DUI is now facing additional charges after he wiped his feces on a jail cell. Law enforcement said ...

Hyperallergic also asked For Freedoms for its insights regarding local artists’ and prison abolitionists’ criticisms of the BBJ program and calls for art in the new detention centers.

(Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images) More Getty Images On the eve of the tournament, the Ridgewood, NJ native showed up to his final practice round for the PGA Championship dressed in "jail cell ...

The escapees yanked open a door to enter the cell with the hole in it around 1 a.m. They shed their jail uniforms once out of the facility, and it is still unclear how some of them obtained ...