New Orleans officials launch manhunt after 10 inmates escape through a hole behind a toilet, with only one fugitive ...

An inmate at the Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail was discovered hanging from a vent in his cell Tuesday in what was the second death in the same day at the facility. William C. Cash, 39, was found ...

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Perched on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz stands out as one of America's most notorious and mysterious prisons ...

The RFE/RL reporter spent 288 days in a Russian prison after she was accused of failing to declare herself a “foreign agent.

POLSON — When someone accused of a crime in this small northwestern Montana town needs mental health care, chances are they’ll be locked in a basement jail cell the size of a walk-in closet. Prisoners ...

As part of the investigation, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement uncovered notes it said were handwritten by Jovanté Teague, 30, of Cross City, inside a jail cell that “clearly indicated ...

POLSON, Mont. — When someone accused of a crime in this small northwestern Montana town needs mental health care, chances are they’ll be locked in a basement jail cell the size of a walk-in ...

However, they also say former inmates who enter the workforce are less likely to re-enter a jail cell. That brings us to a local program turning people’s lives around. “I’ve actually been ...

Deputies found Evans unresponsive in a restraint chair nearly two hours after they closed the jail cell door. A medical examiner ruled Evans' death an accident, citing methamphetamine intoxication ...