The sheriff said the operation was a scheduled security shakedown aimed at locating prohibited items. During the search, deputies recovered multiple homemade weapons ...

A Valparaiso man facing drug charges thought that he had hired a fellow jail inmate to arrange for the killing of a potential ...

A bill aiming to prevent sexual abuse in jails, which was inspired in part by a wide-scale sexual gratification case against ...

Four inmates face additional charges after allegedly assaulting a deputy and sparking a two-minute disturbance.

Attorneys for Texas prisoners say the conditions expose inmates and staff to dangerously high temperatures and have caused ...

The Justice Department says it will investigate allegations that Maine has allowed a transgender inmate to remain housed with women despite complaints that the inmate has assaulted or harassed other ...

In the years since disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead from what was ruled a suicide in his prison cell on Aug ...

The 74 reports a former maximum-security prison in Virginia was transformed into Brynmor Early Education & Preschool, serving ...

A man and woman suspected of smuggling controlled substances to inmates at the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta via the U.S. Postal Service were arrested today. A 29-year-old woman from Hemet and a 4 ...

How one man used drones to flood Ohio prisons with illicit drugs and cell phones ...