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 ...

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 ...

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Editors' note: The previous version of the story said Parias was released from federal custory. A man who was shot by an immigrant agent in South Los Angeles last week after allegedly trying to strike ...

The Orange County Sheriff's Department arrested a deputy for allegedly sexually assaulting a female inmate. Deputy Leobardo Martinez Garcia, 29, was booked for felony sexual battery and assault under ...

This story has been updated with the correct time Dalton Goddard was found in his cell. Another man being held at the Shelby County Jail, commonly known as 201 Poplar, has died, according to the ...