The jail death of a man who suffered from mental illness drew criminal charges against Alabama guards. The sheriff says he’s done nothing wrong.

Friedmann went inside on November 30, 1987. He was barely out of boyhood, myopic, five feet seven, and pencil-thin. Friedmann ...

A Nottingham prisoner was murdered by a fellow inmate after he was overheard making racist comments about black people in the presence of prison officers. Jonathan Thornton, 46, had been on B wing at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:Nottinghamshire Police (Nottinghamshire Police) A Nottingham prisoner was murdered by a fellow inmate after he was ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The McLennan County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a Friday the 13 th incident in which a jail nurse may have exposed about a dozen county jail inmates with diabetes to HIV ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. A burst pipe has caused some areas inside the Fulton County ...

ATLANTA — A former nurse contractor who worked at the Fulton County Jail is now a resident there after she was found to be having a relationship with an inmate and was smuggling marijuana into the ...

With the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the news nationally as enforcement surges have swept through Minneapolis and other cities, scrutiny of a local jail that has long had ...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, captured by the Trump administration on Jan. 3, is being held at Metropolitan Detention Center, or MDC Brooklyn, a federal prison once home to music mogul Sean ...

Maduro likely to be kept separate from other inmates Ousted Venezuelan leader to appear in federal court Monday Brooklyn jail has been described as inhumane Jan 5 (Reuters) - Days after being captured ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) - As Christmas approaches, many families are writing letters to Santa, but the Ripple Effect program in Champaign is writing letters to those who are incarcerated. "Sometimes ...

CHARLOTTE — Mecklenburg County officials are preparing for Iryna’s Law to go into effect on Monday. State lawmakers passed sweeping criminal justice changes after Iryna Zarutska was stabbed to death ...