The acting director of St. Louis County Justice Services says she wants to permanently lead the agency as she works to ...

Boone County spends $2.5 million a year on housing inmates in other counties because its own jail is overcrowded.

Houston County Jail down nearly 100 inmates since hitting capacity six months ago, after officials paused arrests and ...

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY — The Grand Traverse County Board of Commissioners is scheduled to vote Wednesday, March 4, on agreements to house local inmates in Benzie, Clare and Leelanau counties. These ...

Marion County Sheriff Kerry Forestal called on state and federal officials this week to begin moving inmates they have placed at the local jail as quickly as possible to avoid overcrowding that he ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal court in Alabama denied summary judgment to Tuscaloosa County on a state-law claim for the wrongful death of a man sentenced to 30 days in jail on allegations that ...

Sheriff Mark Harrell says 198 inmates are in the process of returning to the facility from 11 other jails statewide.

The number of inmate-on-inmate assaults appears to be rising in the province, according to Ministry of the Solicitor General ...