A grand jury has issued 50 indictments involving five murdered inmates, assaults against staff and other violence at a Tennessee prison.

An inmate takeover of a North Carolina jail was resolved Monday after the negotiated release of two guards who were taken hostage and the transfer of all its inmates, authorities said. Subscribe to ...

Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa has approached the Supreme Court seeking permission to file a fresh bail plea in the Renukaswamy murder case before completing a year in jail. Citing the trial's slow ...

CHEYENNE — The Laramie County Sheriff’s Office is seeking permission to have its jail featured on a relatively new reality television program. At the tail end of the Laramie County Board of County ...

WRAL News is learning more about how a man in the Vance County Jail attempted to escape Monday. On Wednesday, the Vance County Sheriff's Office said the inmate, Mahlon Hebron, attempted to escape the ...

A Mexican citizen handed over to the U.S. to face cartel-related charges died in federal custody three months later, after he was found hanging in his cell at the notorious MDC Brooklyn jail, the ...

Commissioner Alisa Simmons held a press conference on the Tarrant County in-custody jail deaths that took place this week. Two 40-year-old men died this week after suffering apparent medical ...

Law enforcement officials say they’ll file felony charges to combat possession of the increasingly popular synthetic drug at the Albany County jail Assemblyman John McDonald, left, Albany County ...

Diane Bailey lay bleeding and unresponsive on the floor of a Dallas County jail cell Feb. 2 when detention officers discovered her. But when she died three weeks later from the stroke she suffered in ...

The Tarrant County Jail complex in downtown Fort Worth. A second man died this week at the Tarrant County Jail, according to the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office Wednesday. A 40-year-old man on Tuesday ...

Today is expected to be a noteworthy day for the Kansas City Chiefs. Their best receiver is scheduled to be released from jail today, according to a Pro Football Talk report from Mike Florio that ...