A closet-sized isolation cell in the Lake County jail has become a place of last resort as patients in mental health crisis wait for beds at the state-run mental hospital.

An investigation was spurred this week after an Athens-Clarke County Jail inmate died and two others were found unconscious.

An Alabama woman was left to deliver her baby on the floor of a jail shower after which staffers posed with the newborn for pictures with the umbilical cord still attached.

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A 19-year-old accused of breaking into a former Fishkill prison on Saturday has been charged with trespassing. State police say Cody Mallon crawled through a hole in the fence of the Downstate ...

A Columbia County Detention Facility inmate died in a hospital Thursday night after deputies found him unresponsive inside his cell, according to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — An inmate at a Cobb County jail faces multiple charges including arson after being accused of starting a fire inside his cell.

Incarcerated students accepted their diplomas from Augustana College at a commencement inside East Moline Correctional Center.