A Coweta County inmate is dead after reportedly hanging himself inside a jail cell, according to Coweta County Sheriff's ...

A man named Richard Donta J. Cotton escaped from a Chicago courthouse during a hearing; authorities have issued an arrest ...

A 32-year-old inmate was found unresponsive at the Athens-Clarke County Jail on the afternoon of May 5. Jail staff and ...

An inmate at the Athens-Clarke County Jail died on Monday, the second death of an inmate at the jail in the past three weeks.

"Despite the efforts of both jail and emergency medical personnel, we were unable to resuscitate the individual," the sheriff ...

MACON, Ga. — A Macon-Bibb County inmate was injured when other inmates threw hot water onto his face, according to a press release from the Bibb County Sheriff's Office. The 21-year-old inmate ...

Cook County Jail has failed to report 874 incidents of restraint chair use to the state, despite state standards requiring them to do so. Credit: Grace Hauck/Illinois Answers Project This story was ...

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Inmates at Cook County Jail on April 16, 2025, walk to a bus that was waiting to take them to various courthouses in Cook County. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune) The county struggles even more ...

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. - Authorities in Coweta County are investigating the apparent suicide of an inmate who was found unresponsive in his jail cell Friday morning. What we know: According to the ...

Dozens of defendants found guilty of “conspiracy against state security” and given sentences of 13 to 66 years. It was not immediately clear whether all of the estimated 40 defendants were ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - An inmate died of an apparent suicide at the Coweta County Jail on Friday, according to the sheriff’s office. An inmate alerted deputies about another inmate who ...