Like local jails nationwide, Montana's small holding facilities have become institutions of last resort as patients in mental ...

A rise in juvenile detentions threatens to undermine decades of effort to undo the increases seen during the 1990s, when ...

GOSHEN — Elkhart County Circuit Court Judge Michael Christofeno sentenced a woman to 35 years in prison for the death of her baby during court proceedings Thursday. Alauraeve Allen, 24, Elkhart, was ...

Constructed in 1999, the Runnels County Jail has seen decades of wear. County Judge Julia Miller expressed that repairs and upgrades will be needed in the coming years if the facility remains open and ...

Despite the pain in my body, my spirit was upheld by a sense of serenity and joy”: the lost prison memoir of a Romanian ...

Riverside County jails are plagued with some of the nation's highest murder rates and repeated security failures, an ...

The jails of Riverside County are plagued with unusually high murder rates and recurring security failures by an ...