The County Board of Commissioners are planning meetings to start the process of building the new county jail to the north of the present structure. The commissioners are seeking a meeting in August ...

Hundreds of corrections and detention professionals are in downtown mobile for the National Institute for Jail Operations 2024 regional Jail Con. The conference offers training on topics impacting ...

The audit has identified several areas for improvement, including delays in case processing and inmates waiting months for arraignment.

After conducting its meetings in the multi-purpose room of the Wees Annex for several months, the Randolph County Commission has found a new location in which to meet moving forward. Future meetings ...

The Poinsett County jail is currently adding five rooms to hold 20 new inmates, which will be an all-female section.

A Long Island mom is speaking out after learning the so-called “time-out room” her special-needs son would be taken to at school more closely resembles a jail cell.

A planned protest at the Oklahoma County jail trust meeting was thwarted by the meeting's cancellation due to lack of quorum. The meeting’s chairman cited being unavoidably detained, while the ...

Bay County Commissioners voted to expand the Bay County Jail with a new safe room during their Tuesday meeting.

Discussion of a new jail facility dominated the annual Joint Interlocal Committee meeting of the Lee County Board of Commissioners and Sanford City Council on Wednesday. Broadway’s ...

An emergency meeting was held in Elkhart County to discuss boiler troubles at the County Correctional Center.County commissioners jumped into action after the b ...