NPC’s jail education program reaches milestone Couch, who previously served as the detention center's lead teacher for five years, told the NPC Board of Trustees last week the program remains ...

It sounds like an episode of "The Andy Griffith Show," but when an inmate took a flip-flip to a sprinkler in the OK County jail, it was no comedy.

However, if a jail falls short of standards, it could result in increased costs and issues associated with the county’s insurance — through the Idaho Counties Risk Management Program.

PAXTON — The construction of an enclosed breezeway linking Ford County’s jail and courthouse is still being considered to eliminate the need to transport inmates between the facilities using an ...

In a better world it would be rather touching, the way that for many years now — for decades — the members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors have acted as if they were protecting ...

Three more of the 10 inmates who busted out of a New Orleans facility in a high-profile jailbreak were recaptured in two different states, authorities said on May 26. Lenton Vanburen, Leo Tate ...

The Minnesota Sheriff's Association and Advanced Correctional Healthcare are suing the state over a new law that requires jail staffers to provide inmates with any drugs they have prescriptions for.

As the Phelps County Jail in Rolla, Missouri, gets used as an ICE holding facility, a group of 50 activists known as Abide in Love are helping immigrant detainees contact their families and ...

Diddy will remain in jail pending sentencing despite his attorneys’ efforts to free him. Here’s what we know about Diddy’s upcoming sentencing.

A jury finds Sean “Diddy” Combs guilty of two counts relating to transporting individuals for prostitution, but the rap mogul is acquitted of the more serious charges of sex trafficking and ...

An inmate and his wife were arrested in June for allegedly plotting to introduce drugs into the St. Tammany Parish Correctional Center.