Renovations at the Old City Jail in Charleston turn the landmark into a wedding venue
Landmark Enterprises' $15 million extensive renovation turned Charleston's Old City Jail into an event and wedding venue in ...
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Inside El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison
San Salvador — It takes about 90 minutes to drive from El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, to the most notorious prison in the country. Opened in 2023, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, ...
Stateville inmates with violent records wound up in medium-security prisons
When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.
A 104-year-old gets her birthday wish: A day in jail
Centenarian Loretta Chamberlain spent her special day getting fingerprinted, meeting a K-9 and briefly being locked in a cell ...
From broken escalators to overcrowded, unlocked cells: Inside Shelby County's aging jail
The Shelby County Jail is aging, has failing infrastructure and is overcrowded. The sheriff's office allowed reporters inside Feb. 11.