With the Fourth of July sweeping the skies of the Ozarks today, Ozarks First is glancing back at how several local counties celebrated the holiday many decades ago — and it all turns ...

Two deputies were sent to the hospital after an inmate attacked them with a homemade weapon at Polk County Jail.

A Polk County couple has been charged with felonies after a report of child endangerment on Tuesday, July 15. According to ...

Polk County Sheriff’s Office said after inmate Dewayne Young’s tray was collected, he got more agitated and began to flood ...

Though DeSantis and Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd are close allies, DeSantis vetoed $689,000 that the Legislature had approved to replace a chiller at the Central County Jail in Bartow, operated ...

JACKSON, Mo. (KFVS) - More than one year after crews broke ground, the Cape Girardeau County Jail expansion is almost ...

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 ...

In a statement, Sheriff Johnny Moats said staff were collecting lunch trays from cells when an inmate, Dewayne Young, became ...

POLK COUNTY, Texas (KETK) — A Polk County residence was seized by officials after four people were arrested for meth possession on Tuesday, totaling at least 16 narcotics arrest at the property ...

A trustee came ready to throw in the towel and disband the Oklahoma County jail trust, but instead said secret benefactors could save the broke jail.

The Platte County Sheriff's Office said one person died in a two-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon on Missouri 45 Highway in Platte County.

A former Greene County Jail corrections officer is being sued for sexual assault by a woman who was detained at the jail in 2023.