The state's highest court has made a final decision in the legal fight between the city of Birmingham and the Jefferson County sheriff over jail housing.

An inmate in SF jail alleged that a sheriff’s deputy started a physical fight last Friday after telling him “you’re gonna be ...

A worthy addition to the BK-16 corpus of prison literature, Anand Teltumbde’s memoir reveals the systemic injustices ...

In a June 3 court filing, attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo asked the judge to allow Mangione to appear without shackles and a ...

A jury has ordered LaSalle Corrections, one of the nation’s largest private jail operators, to pay $42.75 million in death of ...

On Sunday, Coroner Leon Jones confirmed a reported suicide in the Bibb County jail, which, based on previous reporting, is ...

Collins’ family filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit alleging he was ignored for three hours after a fentanyl overdose in ...

Vito has been a free man since April. Bannon helped him get an early release—after serving 26 years of his 38-year ...

Nicolas Sarkozy begins a five-year prison sentence in La Santé. He maintains his innocence and vows to fight the decision.

A gang member in custody in the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center has been charged after a stabbing happened in the jail ...

The article discusses sexual assault. In June 2024, Andrea Weiskircher thought her life was over.  She was sobbing in a jail cell in Boise thinking about what she had just done. Encouraged by a former ...