Kansas City has been paying other county sheriffs to house people charged with municipal offenses since closing its own jail ...

Kansas City has been paying other county sheriffs to house people charged with municipal offenses since closing its own jail in 2009.

The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office said the inmates, who should be considered “armed and dangerous,” might have had help ...

The city council approved a plan that will begin the process of building a temporary jail facility. The trailer-like ...

The recommendations brought by Arrington Watkins offer a 10-year plan for the state's prison bed needs, going beyond the ...

For Councilman Wes Rogers and Sean O’Byrne, that’s too long to wait. Their proposal? A modular jail — a facility that could be built in as little as four to five months. “We didn’t fall ...

Cott's cause of death is still under investigation as authorities wait to receive the results of an independent autopsy.

"Locked Up Stories: The KGB in Estonia," a new permanent exhibition, has opened in the KGB Prison Cells in Tallinn's Old Town. Originally constructed as an apartment building, the house at Pagari 1 in ...

The 80-year-old ex-president, who is accused of committing crimes against humanity during his so-called "war on drugs", has a decisive lead in his family stronghold of Davao. Former Philippine ...

offering the chance to sleep in the cells once occupied by some of Cornwall’s most notorious inmates. I finally remedied that when Bodmin Jail Hotel invited me along to try out their new ...

Congressman Sam Graves asked the federal Health and Human Services Department to investigate cancer concerns at a Liberty ...