Thirty-one years after Susan Smith confessed to the murder of her two young children, she continues to serve a life sentence ...

The man, who co-founded a group for LGBTQ+ inmates, was stabbed in the eye with a pencil and also suffered blunt force head and neck injuries, according to his death certificate.

DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) — Nine couples got married Friday inside a former county jail in central Ohio that was decorated for Halloween. The vows were exchanged in Delaware County’s 18-cell jail building, ...

As 1930 dawned, bringing in the Great Depression and a decade of lawlessness spawning the likes of Machine Gun Kelley, Alvin Karpis and John Dillinger, ...

As thousands of Tennesseans face the loss of SNAP benefits on Saturday, a Memphis city councilwoman wrote a letter to ...

The Raise the Age law is a dismal failure, and punk Zyairr Davis is glaring proof ( “ ‘Tessa fiend’ rap in slay try,” Oct. 26). This stupid law is meant to keep children out of jail. Well, Davis ...

Larry Bushart was held in jail for five weeks after posting a photo of President Donald Trump commenting in 2024 on the Perry High School shootings ...

A firsthand tour of Adams County Jail reveals alarming safety hazards and severe facility decay, raising urgent concerns about staff and inmate welfare and the pressing need for a new jail.

An investigation determined a man's in-custody death was related to an injury he sustained before he was taken into custody.

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been transferred to a prison in New Jersey to serve out the remainder of his four-year prison sentence ...

In the letter, Lopez described the decision as “incredibly difficult,” but cited several frustrations that led to his ...

Citing Civil Beat’s investigation of a jail diversion program known as Act 26, a group of senators is asking the health ...