The following people have recently been booked into the Columbia County Justice and Detention Facility on Rawhide Road in Magnolia. All the following people are presumed innocent unless found guilty ...

A jury will consider this week whether Ravalli County is violating the rights of impoverished people who have been arrested ...

Sheriff Nick Smith denies wrongdoing as investigators probe Tony Mitchell’s death. Mitchell died after being held in a cell known as “The Freezer.” ...

A deadly crash on Florida’s Turnpike that killed three people in St. Lucie County is now at the center of a national debate.

Tonya Jones sued the county, Jailer Marc Fields and jail staff for wrongful death in December 2023, after the killing of her 61-year-old father.

WJAC provides news, weather and sports information for Johnstown, Altoona, State College and DuBois, Pennsylvania. Our coverage area includes Bedford, Everett, Somerset, Meyersdale, Ebensburg, Windber ...

Friedmann went inside on November 30, 1987. He was barely out of boyhood, myopic, five feet seven, and pencil-thin. Friedmann ...

The women were in one of the jail's mental health units after being booked into the detention center on low-level charges.

California promised accountability for jail deaths. What it delivered was another failure dressed up as reform.

A federal jury has found Riverside County sheriff’s deputies and jail medical staff were not negligent in the death of a ...

Harris County approved a $1.25 million settlement in the 2021 jail killing of Fred Harris. The county admitted no wrongdoing in the agreement.

Faced with overcrowded jails, officials in Houston have partnered with prison companies to help manage inmates, sometimes ...