Grant Hardin, whose notoriety led to the TV documentary "Devil in the Ozarks," escaped May 25 from prison where he was ...

A flake of blue paint flutters and falls from the bars of the jail cell door as it swings open with ... More than a third of families go into debt to cover the costs of staying in touch with ...

As North Carolina officials look to reduce their use of solitary confinement, several mentally ill inmates have killed ...

when the inmates yanked open a faulty cell door inside a jail, squeezed through a hole behind a toilet, scaled a barbed-wire fence and fled into the cover of darkness. Authorities didn’t learn ...

Police say one of the New Orleans jail escapees who was captured on Monday was found with the help of an anonymous tip from a concerned citizen. Twenty-six-year-old Lenton Vanburen Jr. was ...

A maintenance worker at a New Orleans jail has been arrested and accused ... Several inmates were caught on surveillance video forcing open a cell door at about 12:22 a.m. CDT, according to ...

(WJHG/WECP) - The Walton County Sheriff’s Office says a man arrested for DUI is now facing additional charges after he wiped his feces on a jail ... glass window and door of the cell.

Buchanan continued his disruptive behavior at the jail. He yelled at and harassed booking staff, then defecated and urinated in his cell, smearing feces on the glass window and door, according to ...

As two cellmates were fighting in a Riverside County jail, an inexperienced guard remotely opened the cell door, a violation ... the reports appeared to cover up serious security lapses.

"I have never seen in my 20 year career a man languish and slowly die to death over eight days as they cover up ... implement. A jail captain and lieutenant opened Burch's cell door, leveled ...

Burch banged on a cell ... door and banged on it, shouting for “Help,” on and off for an hour, surveillance video shows. He also apologized and asked for water. Jail staff had covered the main ...

The deaths mark four within a week and come amid questions over the jail's safety and efforts to replace broken locks on cell doors ... Lucas Finton covers crime, policing, jails, the courts ...