The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office revealed Friday night that two inmates of the county jail have died since Thursday. This ...

A fifth-grader in Texas was caught with a small bag of cocaine at school. They were then arrested and transported to a juvenile detention center. Recently, a student at Jefferson Elementary School in ...

Blaming staff shortages and an unsafe building, the Broward Sheriff’s Office won’t provide deputies to work at the state’s ...

A 42-year-old woman suspected of sexually assaulting a male juvenile inmate while she was a Riverside County correctional officer has been taken into custody, authorities announced Friday.

About 20 people jailed for violent and non-violent offenses are expected to be released from the jail. A few inmates had been released from the D.C. jail in Southeast by midday Tuesday ...

were released from the Central Detention Facility in Washington, DC, just before midnight, Trump administration officials announced outside the jail — adding that Elon Musk was “the mastermind ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol, a former prosecutor, used to put people in jail. Now, after his formal arrest, he himself is in a cell, alone. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul As president of South ...

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has been given a 14-year jail sentence in a land corruption case, officials and his lawyer have said. The verdict in the case followed allegations of ...

Detainees are routinely subjected to the threat of stabbings, sexual assault and gang violence inside the crumbling walls of a South Carolina jail, according to a Justice Department report ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Attorney for South Carolina Adair Boroughs discusses the findings of the U.S. Department of Justice’s ...

“It is sociology because it is jail, the society of jail, but also how it mirrors the society outside,” he says. “It is political science because it is about resources, it is about ...