Smith County settled for $1.5 million with over 100 former inmates who claim they were over-detained due to unlawful county ...

A second inmate escaped custody, inspired by another's attempt. Both were recaptured, but the sheriff is now reviewing jail protocols.

When a GoFundMe for a sick, stray cat at a Texas women's prison went viral and raised nearly $11,000, it felt like a ...

A routine facility check at a county jail just east of Atlanta on Monday morning suddenly turned into a manhunt after officials discovered three men, all accused of violent crimes, had escaped the ...

HOSPITAL WHERE THEY ARE EXPECTED TO RECOVER. IN GEORGIA, THE THREE FUGITIVES CAPTURED AFTER ESCAPING A DEKALB COUNTY JAIL ARE FACING NEW CHARGES. THE FBI SAYS IT IS FILING FEDERAL KIDNAPING CHARGES ...

Local ministry spreads Christmas joy to inmates at TDCJ Roberson Unit Student deported despite judge’s emergency order California on track to break 75-year Lake Mead record Pete Davidson and Elsie ...

TELFAIR COUNTY, Ga. — An inmate at Telfair State Prison was killed after an altercation with other inmates on Saturday, the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) said. The GDC said that Preston ...

OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — Authorities hunted Saturday for the last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail after removing concrete blocks from a deteriorating wall. “We would prefer that he ...

The last of three inmates who escaped a St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, jail after removing mortar and concrete blocks from a jail wall has been captured more than two weeks after escaping, authorities ...

Two Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees have been arrested in connection with the death of an inmate at the William P. “Bill” Clements Unit in Amarillo, according to jail records and a ...

Sept. 25 (UPI) --The United States executed two death row inmates on Thursday evening -- one in Alabama and the other in Texas -- during a year that has seen an uptick in inmates being put to death.