A lawsuit claims El Paso County failed to properly protect 57-year-old Jesus Torres before he was viciously killed in jail.

Following stabbings, fights, contraband smuggling and death, the U.S. Department of Justice opened an investigation into the ...

Houston lawyer accused of drug smuggling in Harris County Jail is third attorney arrested in past year as authorities ...

"We shouldn't have mentally ill people in the jail in the first place," an OK County jail consultant says, and a state agency ...

The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta unconstitutionally subjects inmates to “inhumane, violent and hazardous conditions” that ...

"Fulton County Jail fails to adequately protect incarcerated people from the substantial risk of serious harm from violence, ...

The Hennepin County Jail has been granted another extension to slash nearly 20% of its population, moving back the Thursday ...

The OK County jail trust voted to appeal a district judge's dismissal of its case against the state Health Department.

The report follows a federal investigation to assess conditions in Fulton County jails, focusing on detainees' living ...

The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office said the jail is experiencing outages due to IT issues between two of its vendors.

The Oklahoma County Detention Center has cut ties with the State Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services due ...

Blood, bruises, and broken bones -- that's what two former detention officers told ABC13 they witnessed during their several-year stint at the jail.