Missouri has 440 people in city or county jails awaiting transfer to the Department of Mental Health. But there are no beds.

Mary McGoldrick from Glasgow was sent a letter from HMP Barlinnie prisoner Jo White who had posted her name, address and ...

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy was arrested and booked into a jail in Texas Friday night for allegedly ...

San Mateo County voters decided on Tuesday to amend the county charter to give the Board of Supervisors the authority to fire ...

A man who escaped a Puerto Rican prison nearly 40 years ago was taken into custody in Florida, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office.

The Walker County Sheriff's Office deactivated its Facebook page Friday, a decision made solely by Sheriff Nick Smith, ...

Walker County deputies Carl Carpenter and Matt Handley are indicted on federal charges in the abuse of inmate Tony Mitchell, who ultimately died in the custody of the sheriff's office. (Walker County ...

A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department custody assistant pleaded no contest to committing sex crimes against an ...

Content warning: Discussions of murder, rape, and assault. Recently, we featured stories from formerly incarcerated people ...

Activists say an Alabama teenager's incarceration in an adult jail violates federal and state laws that require inmates who ...