Boone County is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to house inmates in jails across Mid-Missouri, as local officials continue to struggle with overcrowding and a growing backlog of detainees ...

As authorities search for five of 10 missing inmates who busted out of a New Orleans jail, an inmate who fled a different Louisiana jail has been recaptured, and several deputies have been placed ...

In 2021, a group of men awaiting trial at two California jails sued the city and county of San Francisco ... “created the problem by building a jail without a secured outdoor exercise yard ...

“The victim was an employee of the WAC Corporation of Greenville, a landscaping contractor, who was at the jail cutting the grass,” the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office said in a May 20 news ...

CLAYTON, Mo. – Cleanup efforts are underway in Clayton, Missouri, five days after an EF-3 tornado caused significant damage in the area. City crews have started a block-by-block cleanup in the ...

Jails built in the last century often have few windows and little room for recreation and natural light, making them “obsolete” by today’s design standards, according to Kenneth Ricci, prison and jail ...

“But I’ve got more immediate needs right now.” The Cuyahoga County jail is housed in a foreboding brutalist structure known as the Justice Center. Built in 1976, the complex is made of concrete and ...

The inmates are believed to have escaped from the jail around 1 a.m. on Friday, officials said. The United States Marshals, Louisiana State Police and Probation and Parole were notified by 9:30 a ...