A 21-year-old fugitive in Cook County is on the run after escaping electronic monitoring and removing his GPS tracking device, authorities said.

The 20-year-old man was taken into custody in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida — more than 900 miles from Fairfax County in Virginia ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are asking sheriffs in Southwest Colorado to notify them before undocumented ...

A federal judge on Friday appointed a lead monitor with three decades of experience in corrections to oversee a consent decree meant to address dangerous and unhealthy jail conditions in Fulton County ...

According to an unsealed federal criminal complaint filed against seven Chilean men allegedly involved in the crime spree, ...

Insurance providers in California would be required to reimburse patients who seek mental health care after a natural disaster under proposed legislation to address the emotional and ...

On this day in 1906, the County of Los Angeles officially accepted a bid from H.C. Register for the construction of the Old Newhall Jail at a cost of $2,237.

The iris scanners are more accurate than fingerprints, facial recognition or palm scanners, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.

Two men have landed themselves in jail following a plot to smuggle nearly $200,000 worth of contraband into a Louisiana ...

Six New York prison workers have been indicted on charges of second-degree murder in the beating death of an incarcerated man ...

A$AP Rocky gets to return to life at the peak of his fame instead of the long prison sentence that might have come from a ...

LOS ANGELES - The James A Kearns Correction Center in Franklin County Ohio has been rated one of the best new jail facilities in the country while Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles remains a dangerous ...