The Buncombe County Sheriff's Office is asking other North Carolina counties for help housing inmates as overcrowding worsens ...

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections has investigated complaints about overcrowding and other alleged sub-par conditions at the Butler County Jail and declared them “unfounded.” ...

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Butte County officials on Friday marked the completion of a major expansion of the county jail with a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

It might not be quite as long as Charles Dickens’s epic courtroom novel Bleak House, about England’s longest-running court ...

The Marion County Adult Detention Center in Indianapolis will no longer hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...

Sheriff Forestal is asking the feds and the state to transfer people held in Indianapolis elsewhere in a timely manner, or ...

Overcrowding, new laws and soaring costs are forcing Potter County to decide soon whether to expand or build a new jail ...

The leadership shift follows the Jasper County jail’s most recent inspection report, which cited numerous safety violations ...