Amanda DeVos resigned as the Madison County Treasurer in July after being charged with theft and tampering with records in ...

A former Madison County Sheriff’s deputy charged with the Sexual Assault of a real estate agent has been sentenced to the maximum possible punishment.

Three inmates — including one who was being held on a murder charge — have escaped from a county jail just east of Atlanta, authorities ...

A 29-year-old inmate who escaped from Columbia County Jail was captured Thursday morning at the Tomah Walmart following a ...

Families, sheriffs and providers agree: jail is often the default response to addiction, even as withdrawal can become a ...

Drug overdoses are suspected in the Monday deaths of two Spokane County Jail inmates, according to the county government’s spokesperson. Officials are investigating the deaths and how drugs were ...

A review of more than 100 court cases found some immigrants saw harsher punishments, even when they have fewer prior convictions. Defendants in these cases said they believe their citizenship status ...

An investigator with the Indiana Department of Correction alleged Smith delivered to an inmate a package containing marijuana and Suboxone strips.

An Indiana correctional officer faces felony charges after allegedly using a condom and Kraft cheese to traffic drugs to an inmate at Pendleton Correctional Facility. Ashley S. Smith, 38, was arrested ...

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as ...

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top. By Brian HoweyMukta Joshi ...

The new Wood County Jail has introduced over half a dozen programs to help inmates develop life skills. Programs include job training like ServSafe, counseling, life skills, and recovery groups like ...