Kenny Loftin, Gov. Jeff Landry’s embattled pick to run Louisiana’s juvenile justice system, came under fire during a Senate ...

CNN reports that Ukrainian Yaroslav Vasinskyi, who is affiliated with the REvil ransomware gang, has been given an over ...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill into law requiring jails across the state to check immigration status of inmates or ...

The Supreme Court has ordered judges to visit the jails of their respective jurisdictions to check the situations of persons deprived of liberty amid the scorching heat.

Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty ...

Nebraskans incarcerated in county jails will have access to voting rights information under a partnership between the ...

A judge has jailed a teenager for life after he stabbed another boy to death with a zombie knife at a 16th birthday party. Shane Cunningham, Leo Knight and Cartel Bushnell, whose rights to anonymity ...

Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell has asked the National Institute of Corrections to help stem the smuggling of drugs into ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that former National Security Agency information systems security designer Jareh ...

Am I going to continue banging my head against the wall here for something I don’t think is going to change?” asked the ...

Western Pomerania on Thursday sentenced a 15-year-old to seven years and nine months in prison over the death of a 6-year-old ...

More than half arrive at the jail addicted to something. Nationally, 63% of people booked into local jails struggle with a substance use disorder — six times the rate of the general population ...