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Two Polk County jailers are recovering after authorities said they were stabbed by an inmate Saturday afternoon.
Sac County sheriff's deputies subdued an inmate who stripped in his cell before climbing through the 14-by-8 food pass-through door at mealtime and chasing the jailer.
Matthew Carey admitted that he told an inmate in the housing unit where he worked about another inmate facing sex crime charges, leading to an assault.
As a new Berkeley County jail expansion is being built, inmates say they have faced severe overcrowding, unhygienic conditions and inhumane treatment inside the old facility.
An inmate from Alameda County, who has a prior conviction for killing a man in 2007 and is currently serving a term at Mule Creek State Prison for forcible rape, is under investigation in the ...
DES MOINES, Iowa | The Polk County Jail has been less crowded than usual, easing concerns that the county might need to spend money to open a vacant wing.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has been housing inmates at a Louisiana facility in order to remain in compliance.
The county has failed to comply with Texas' mandated ratio of one detention officer for every 48 inmates, Sheriff Byron Lyons wrote in a news release Wednesday.
Like many, Polk County is among the jails in Texas dealing with staffing shortages, leading to them moving inmates to Louisiana.
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Police allege Ivan Rosalio Mendez-Perez, 31, punched Polk County Jail deputies and grabbed a female deputy inappropriately, making vulgar comments.
A man was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Monday for an attack against corrections officers at the Polk County Jail last March.