A paperwork breakdown in Texas county jails has kept some people locked up after judges say they are free to go. The Dallas County jail held Jessica Jackson an extra 49 days even though a judge ...

Nanos has been leading the investigation since Nancy Guthrie went missing on Feb. 1.

Was former Erie County corrections officer Niko Carter prosecuted for contraband — or punished for reporting misconduct?

Twenty-one-year-old Denise Amber Lee was abducted from her Florida home in broad daylight in 2008. If it weren't for a ...

Figures from HMP Ford, near Littlehampton, show 180 high-risk men are now living in the prison, almost half the jail’s population ...

The news was met with shock from state lawmakers, who have been reeling in recent weeks as they cut Medicaid and other state services to address a $1 billion budget shortfall ...

The Ombudsman reported multiple complaints of mold and rodent feces in food, rotten milk, and meals that were hard or damaged with freezer burn, making them “barely edible.” ...

More than five ounces of cocaine and 17.5g fentanyl seized in Statesville; two arrested and booked into Iredell County Jail.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – KRQE News 13 is seeing the moments leading up to the arrest of a prominent Albuquerque defense attorney, who is accused of trying to smuggle drugs into a New Mexico prison.

When the judge inspected the cash, he observed what appeared to be Chinese writing on the back of the currency.

The lawsuit alleges children as young as 10 are being confined to prison-like conditions for weeks or months after judges determines they can return to the community.

Florida executed Michael King by lethal injection March 17 at Florida State Prison near Starke, for the 2008 Sarasota County ...