A man was arrested for throwing a 4-month-old baby down on the bed and covering the baby’s mouth while they were crying, ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

The Shelby County Jail is aging, has failing infrastructure and is overcrowded. The sheriff's office allowed reporters inside Feb. 11.

The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office has announced the unanimous approval of a 64-bed jail expansion by the Texas ...

The Salt Lake County Council in Utah on Tuesday voted 7-2 to use a local option sales tax to fund the opening of additional beds at Oxbow Jail -- one of the county's two jails -- and, as required by ...