A Mexican immigrant accused of trafficking cocaine in Lewis County is being held in the Lewis County Jail on a 72-hour hold pending possible felony charges. Federal agents and detectives with the ...

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.

After the Collins Correctional Facility was placed on lockdown, Commissioner of the NYS Department of Corrections Daniel F.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

As state legislators work to craft complex and costly plans to fix Georgia’s troubled prison system, they may face an extra challenge: Conditions inside the wire appear to be getting even worse.

A Level 3 sex offender living in Centralia was arrested and charged this week for alleged possession of child sexual abuse material after Lewis County Sheriff's Office detectives followed up on a tip ...

The first few weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term have sent shock waves of uncertainty across the U.S. But one ...

The City Council has approved the vacation of a portion of Roberts Street, part of plans for establishing a police and fire training facility on Flint’s north side. Council members approved the ...

Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...

After weeks of uncertainty, new leadership has been announced for the Oklahoma County Detention Center. Canadian lawmaker ...

For a week in 1964, the jail was the epicenter of America's civil rights movement, as Martin Luther King Jr. and several ...