Inside the Ramsey County jail, there are nights that people sleep on mattresses on plastic cots because there aren’t enough beds. After clearing out many people from the jail during the coronavirus ...

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County jails across Pennsylvania lack the resources to address a growing mental health crisis, putting some of the most vulnerable incarcerated people at heightened risk, according to a statewide ...

The way he tells it, two weeks had passed since Jonathan Hamilton had been allowed to change his underwear. Hamilton, 39, landed back in Dallas County Jail after violating the terms of his release on ...

Our opinion: Keeping rainwater out of the sewers is generally good policy, but the experiment proposed at the new Porter County Jail must come with a guarantee that neither security nor the structure ...