The Shelby County Jail is aging, has failing infrastructure and is overcrowded. The sheriff's office allowed reporters inside ...

After several meetings since June on the possibilities for a new jail, the Fond du Lac County Jail Ad Hoc Committee released its findings Feb. 11.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Sacco and Vanzetti are interred, not in a tomb — their bodies were cremated shortly after their executions — but in an archive, a testament to a radical tradition and the first Red Scare which sought ...

In a plea agreement filed in late January, Benjamin Shoemaker agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy against rights as well as two counts of deprivation of rights.

Following Robert Abela’s insistence in keeping Alex Dalli in his position as Malta-Libya envoy despite an ombudsman report which found damning evidence of inhumane conditions and abuse in prisons when ...

The two human services buildings — the almshouse and hospital — likely were the fourth and fifth buildings under county watch ...

None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the death of Robert Brooks.

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office invited media to tour the Shelby County Jail. A CA reporter saw deteriorating conditions ...