State lawmakers consider requiring county law enforcement to assist federal immigration efforts, sparking funding concerns, ...

The cell used for solitary confinement, popularly known as “the hole,” was generally referred to as “the dungeon” 100 years ...

A top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was released from jail Wednesday, a source in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri ...

Tourism in Monroeville, Alabama's Literary Capital, was quickly outpacing its available lodging until these historic downtown ...

Plans for a new jail, sheriff's office, and dispatch center will provide a more efficient and safe facility in Page County.

Sheriffs could play a key role in how immigration is enforced on the local level. Among Wisconsin's 72 sheriffs, cooperation ...

The planned facility, which will include 1,040 beds, is one of four borough-based jails set to open in the Bronx, Queens, ...

Answers in August: Sheriff, commissioners answer Autauga Metro Jail questions Crews are ahead of schedule in the work, Kramer said recently. "But it will be a few months before the interior of the ...

A Kamloops man was sentenced to two years in jail just two days after being arrested last week. Stephen Timothy Bittner, 23, was arrested when the Kamloops RCMP executed a search warrant at his ...

HALIFAX - Richard MacInnis lives with the haunting memory of finding his friend’s body in a Halifax jail cell. That experience at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility on Jan. 15 ...

Despite some significant skepticism, a Vernon judge has accepted a joint submission for a man who sent his ex-wife thousands of emails, parked outside her home and tried to stop her from leaving a ...