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.

PHOENIX — A decades-old lawsuit that alleges inhumane treatment inside Maricopa County jails has been resurrected and will be heard by a new judge.

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 ...

PHOENIX — A man accused of murdering a fellow inmate in a Maricopa County jail last year is suspected of assaulting another inmate this year, according to authorities.

An occupied jail transport van bound for King County was stolen north of Ellensburg by an inmate on Tuesday.

Local News Inmate escapes during roadside clean-up in Mason County Deputies are searching for Domingo Pablo Mendoza, 49, who escaped from Mason County Jail during a road clean-up shift.

Five Madison County Jail inmates face mob action charges after allegedly attacking another detainee, authorities say.

BCSO: Inmate who tried to kill herself dies days later at the hospital A Bexar County sheriff's deputy intervened with the 27-year-old's suicide attempt Monday.

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

The body of a Winston-Salem man who died Saturday in the Forsyth County Jail will undergo an autopsy at a local hospital, authorities said.

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.