An inmate in Louisiana was recaptured, a little more than two days after he escaped and six months after 10 men broke out from another jail in the state.

A report by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department that found no "substantiated" allegations of rape or sexual abuse filed by ...

A federal judge has ordered that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement allow detainees at the basement of the detention ...

Hundreds of people are on a waitlist for opioid addiction treatment in Los Angeles County jails as the state presses the ...

According to the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office, Timothy Parks, 31, was arrested on the charges of aggravated assault with a firearm, aggravated criminal damage to property, felon in possession of ...

A 49-year-old man was pronounced dead at a local hospital after being found unresponsive in the Shelby County Jail on Tuesday ...

A U.S. senator is calling for the shutdown of an immigrant detention center in New Mexico where the federal government has failed to get a contract extension with a local county.

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection ...