A wreck closed Interstate 40 westbound lanes near exit 100 Tuesday afternoon in Burke County. A photo shows a plume of smoke rising from I-40 just after the Jamestown Road bridge around 2:30 p.m.

An inmate who escaped from the Sullivan County House of Corrections in Unity, New Hampshire, was captured Sunday in Norwalk, Connecticut, authorities said.

An investigation is underway after an inmate died after a fight broke out as he was being released from the Harris County Jail, HCSO said.

A man was extradited from Mexico City and booked into the Maricopa County Jail, six years after he kidnapped his noncustodial children in Arizona.

A 35-year-old woman is accused of first-degree murder after allegedly supplying the drugs that killed her cellmate in March at the Oklahoma County Detention Center.

Luis Alberto Herrera-Ramirez has been extradited from Mexico City and is now in the Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix. He will soon be transferred to the Pima County Sheriff's Department ...

Harris County inmate death: Harold Alexander Jr. What we know: Detention officers learned at about 10 p.m. Thursday that Harold Alexander Jr. was unresponsive on his mattress. According to the sheriff ...

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office will equip all jail facilities with an X-ray scanner in an attempt to prevent inmates from bringing in drugs.

Inset: Timothy James Wood (Maricopa County Jail). Background: The area in Arizona where Wood allegedly imprisoned his girlfriend in a shed for two weeks (KSAZ).

The Maricopa County jail system has the fourth-largest inmate population in the country. Earlier this year, it made national headlines after more than a dozen overdosed at the Estrella Jail within ...

Wood was booked into a Maricopa County Jail. His many charges included two counts of aggravated assault, sexual assault, felony kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment.

On Monday, June 30, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that a missing 5-year-old boy and his family dog had been found safe in Arizona after they wandered into the desert together.