Detroit — Demolition of the former Wayne County Jail is underway as part of a planned redevelopment of the area east of Greektown into a life sciences district. Crews began razing the former jail, ...

A routine facility check at a county jail just east of Atlanta on Monday morning suddenly turned into a manhunt after officials discovered three men, all accused of violent crimes, had escaped the ...

Three inmates — including one who was being held on a murder charge — have escaped from a county jail just east of Atlanta, authorities said. The breakout happened early Monday morning at the DeKalb ...

Nick Reiner is being held in America’s largest mental health jail, which is notorious for its rat-infested and urine-soaked “inhumane” conditions — a far cry from the Brentwood mansion he lived in ...

The Beaufort County jail failed to meet state corrections standards this year, adding to ongoing questions about how the taxpayer-funded facility is run. State inspectors with the South Carolina ...

ATLANTA — Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat says a fire inside Fulton County Jail sent nine people to the hospital on Friday night. The sheriff confirmed that five detainees and four sheriff’s office ...

The last of three inmates who escaped a St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, jail after removing mortar and concrete blocks from a jail wall has been captured more than two weeks after escaping, authorities ...

Family members fear inmates may not survive the Clayton County Jail. A mother says her son was stabbed ten times and lost two fingers. A civil rights group calls the jail "inhumane" and ...

SAN JOSE — A federal monitor overseeing Santa Clara County jail reforms is asking a judge to hold the county in contempt of court for its failure to ensure inmates have access to adequate medical care ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Chris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he ...

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top. By Brian HoweyMukta Joshi ...

An inmate died Thursday at the Harris County Jail after contracting bacterial meningitis, a life-threatening infection, according to the sheriff’s office. The 53-year-old man, who was not identified ...