The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office said the inmates might have had help from jail workers. By Michael Levenson The rectangular hole in the cell wall was just big enough for a person to squeeze ...

WALTON COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - The Walton County Sheriff’s Office says a man arrested for DUI is now facing additional charges after he wiped his feces on a jail cell. Law enforcement said ...

A Coweta County inmate, 41-year-old Alan Caswell, was found dead in his jail cell on May 4 after reportedly hanging himself with a bedsheet. Detention officers and EMS attempted life-saving ...

President Donald J. Trump's latest brainstorm du jour is to reopen the federal prison on Alcatraz Island where he plans to incarcerate America's most dangerous criminals. This despite the ...

A Freeport man was arrested who was arrested for driving under the influence after a series of disruptive incidents in Santa Rosa Beach on Friday allegedly wiped feces all over a jail cell ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — An inmate at the Troup County Jail was found unresponsive in his cell this afternoon, according to the Troup County Sheriff’s Office. Officers say that Raymond Wardlaw ...

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, sentenced to 11 years in prison for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold and cash offered as bribes, is getting 11 more days of freedom.

David Elliot Dickerson, 72, was found unconscious in his cell about 5:20 p.m., the sheriff’s office said. Detention officers began CPR and called for medical personnel. Attempts to revive ...

(WKRC) - A jail entered lockdown after authorities realized a convicted murderer had gone missing from their care. 12 hours later he was found in a courthouse holding cell, having been ...

The owner of a brick building in York, SC, that once served as the county jail wants to lock in a buyer ... of the building's institutional roots. Bob Smith of Granite Real Estate Investments ...

Early Monday morning, the inmate got out of his cell at the L.C. Knight Detention Center. Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Steven Wright said deputies found the man inside the jail and he ...