It's more costly to house inmates at higher security levels, but the Michigan Corrections Organization says the system needs ...

A Bibb County teen was sentenced to a decade in prison this week after admitting to shooting and killing his friend. . Jaleer Davis, 19, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Monday, according to ...

The jail death of a man who suffered from mental illness drew criminal charges against Alabama guards. The sheriff says he’s done nothing wrong.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office is conducting a death investigation after a man was found unresponsive at the Jackson County Detention Center and later died at a local hospital overnight.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said corrections officers were conducting scheduled bed-checks when they found two inmates unresponsive.

A federal appeals court declined to reverse the bribery conviction of former Hinds County interim sheriff Marshand Crisler.

Diana Knapp, director of the Jackson County Detention Center, put in her resignation Sunday, just weeks before the opening of the county’s new jail.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Jackson County’s Jail Director has resigned, and Sheriff Deryl Forté has already named two temporary replacements. Forté announced on Monday, March 2, that Deputy Directors ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jackson County Detention Center Director Diana Knapp submitted her resignation on Sunday. Effective ...

Police arrested a suspect for the murder of Malcolm Harris, 25, found dead inside an abandoned house in Jackson.

SELINSGROVE — State police are investigating the death of a Snyder County inmate in Clinton County Prison, the second in less than nine months. Matthew J. Furr, 46, of Sunbury, was sent to Clinton ...

An inmate who escaped custody from a hospital in McClain County on Friday morning was arrested in Pauls Valley after crashing a stolen vehicle and carjacking a passerby, authorities said. Michael ...