Sheriff Lee Baca promised transparency. He'd won praise for an inmate-education program. But stories persisted of violent and ...

An Omaha lawmaker's unannounced visit to the McCook-based state prison that's converting to an ICE detention center sparks ...

The prison in Tecumseh had long been a tinderbox when inmates started fires in their cells in 2023. This time, an inmate died. Months later, so did a deputy warden ...

A Nebraska lawmaker showed up unannounced this week at the state prison system’s Work Ethic Camp/would-be ICE detention facility.

A retired state judge on the Board of Correction scolded city jail officials Tuesday for forcing defense lawyers to endure ...

Sheriff Bill Waybourn refuses to respond to a Democrat’s requests. But voters and county commissioners are responsible for the jail, too. | Opinion ...

A St. Lucie County sheriff's deputy was suspended 10 days following an internal affairs investigation. The investigation ...

An Australian judge has sentenced Erin Patterson to life in prison for poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives ...

"Right 2 Hug” lawsuits in Genesee and St. Clair Counties allege local governments have profited from phone calls by depriving ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Dramatic video obtained by WREG appears to show Austin Drummond attacking a fellow inmate while incarcerated in a common area. Drummond is accused of killing a family of four then ...

An annual three-day festival returned to Atlantic Beach to celebrate the Gullah Geechee cultural heritage. The coroner has identified two sisters who were killed in a Pee Dee crash on Saturday.

HARTFORD — A judge spent a full court day Friday hearing sometimes emotional arguments on whether she should make public a video recording of the 2018 incident in which a prison inmate died at the ...