Nine inmates - some of them charged with murder - escaped a jail in New Orleans and remain on the loose as authorities investigate whether any guards were in on the jailbreak plot. A total of 10 ...

Orenzo Anthony Byrd has been charged with first-degree murder, while fired jail phone operator Debbie Binkley faces second-degree manslaughter charge. The latest jail inmate death, a suicide ...

Other inmates described this women's prison in Derbyshire as a "holiday camp", even "rehab". There was no one homogenous view, but there is also not one type of prisoner here - it is home to both ...

Chris Torres ctorres@star-telegram.com The Texas Commission on Jail Standards has asked the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office to turn over missing security camera footage in the case of a woman ...

Jesse Fraga After advocating repeatedly for a new Bibb County Jail, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis proposed Thursday an idea to instead expand the current local jail to better accommodate for ...

Butler County Jail detained dozens of people arrested by ICE in its first week working with the agency, an Enquirer review of jail records found. The Butler County Sheriff's Office renewed its ...

NEW ORLEANS — Five inmates are still on the run after a large-scale escape from the Orleans Parish Jail overnight, with five — captured so far in what authorities call a breach of public safety.

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A grieving family is pressing Oklahoma County Jail leadership for answers as the jail has hit the same number of inmate deaths this month it saw all of last year.

A 32-year-old inmate at the Athens-Clarke County Jail died Monday. This is the second inmate death at the jail in three weeks. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating the death.

WDSU sources have shared a photo of the hole dug by inmates who escaped the Orleans Parish Jail Friday. The photo has been edited due to the nature of the messages written on the wall. The photo ...

Los Angeles County’s overall jail population has increased nearly 4% since late last year, in part because of more arrests related to a voter-approved proposition that allowed police to once ...

Andrew Finn was promoted to warden of the St. Joseph County Jail after 15 years with the department. Finn’s experience includes roles as a corrections officer, field training officer ...