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Three escapees had been captured by Friday night. 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 ...
HARRISBURG, Ark. (KAIT) - The Poinsett County jail expansion is complete. The jail added 20 more beds to its facility. “It’s been long overdue, and we’re excited about it,” Poinsett County ...
Chris Torres ctorres@star-telegram.com The Texas Commission on Jail Standards has asked the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office to turn over missing security camera footage in the case of a woman ...
Nine inmates - some of them charged with murder - escaped a jail in New Orleans and remain on the loose as authorities investigate whether any guards were in on the jailbreak plot. A total of 10 ...
Jesse Fraga After advocating repeatedly for a new Bibb County Jail, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis proposed Thursday an idea to instead expand the current local jail to better accommodate for ...
A 32-year-old inmate at the Athens-Clarke County Jail died Monday. This is the second inmate death at the jail in three weeks. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating the death.
Butler County Jail detained dozens of people arrested by ICE in its first week working with the agency, an Enquirer review of jail records found. The Butler County Sheriff's Office renewed its ...
Family members of people who died in the Tarrant County jail were in Austin on Thursday to plead with members of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards to take action and help find answers about ...
Orenzo Anthony Byrd has been charged with first-degree murder, while fired jail phone operator Debbie Binkley faces second-degree manslaughter charge. The latest jail inmate death, a suicide ...
Andrew Finn was promoted to warden of the St. Joseph County Jail after 15 years with the department. Finn’s experience includes roles as a corrections officer, field training officer ...
LIBERTY COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- A state entity overseeing Texas jails ordered the Liberty County Jail to shut down, citing long-standing dangerous conditions that reportedly contributed to a fire ...
Jeff Landry joined "America Reports" and issued a stern warning to those inside the jail who might have helped the inmates escape. "They're gonna go to jail as well," said Landry. "Not only those ...