Two more men died at the Shelby County Jail this week, Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said Friday night. The deaths make four in a week.

Officers intentionally kept the conditions in a local Alabama jail “as filthy as possible” to convince county commissioners to increase salaries and jail budget, a ploy that eventually killed one ...

Space is running out at the Sarasota County Jail, with it already being the second-most overcrowded jail in Florida. The ...

Warren Grignon pleaded to involuntary manslaughter and distributing a controlled substance for a fellow inmate's death.

Missouri’s local jails are paid $24.95 per day for each inmate they hold before eventually going to a state prison. A ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown, the federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday, returning ...

When someone is arrested for a crime in McLeod County, everyone pays. In 2019, it cost county taxpayers about $153.24 per day to keep each inmate housed at McLeod County Jail. During a recent day ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is proposing to close two state prisons and two community corrections centers in a cost-saving measure that ...