With the Fourth of July sweeping the skies of the Ozarks today, Ozarks First is glancing back at how several local counties ...

Authorities are investigating after a 58-year-old inmate was found unresponsive at the Oklahoma County Detention Center Thursday afternoon and later died.

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 in the last four years.

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 ...

Working on reforms to the way we as a society put people into the slammer is fine — important and necessary.

Lawsuit challenges new Minnesota law requiring prescription drugs for county jail inmates The Hennepin County Public Safety Facility.

Pickard was apprehended by Polk County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) deputies at a residence in Bradley on Monday, June 30th. According to authorities, he surrendered to deputies without incident and was ...

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 ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- In an update in the Eugene Weekly embezzlement case, Elisha Young is now in the Lane County Jail. Jail records show Young was booked into the jail on Wednesday night for three counts ...

Oklahoma County treasurer questions jail leaders on budget shortfall A budget battle is brewing between the Oklahoma County Detention Center and the Oklahoma County Budget Board as the jail is set to ...

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 ...