A death investigation is underway after a woman in custody at the Vigo County Jail died early Tuesday, according to the Vigo ...

Growing Rutherford County will replace an aging, overcrowded jail through a $300 million project by 2030, project consultant Bart Kline said.

Fulton County Jail in Atlanta has become one of the most controversial detention centers in the United States. Overcrowding, violence, and dangerous conditions have turned daily life behind its walls ...

Horace Cowan, a former Camden man convicted of a 1990 homicide, won a state Supreme Court dispute over his long wait for parole reconsideration.

Officials from several agencies have denied the details of Sunny Naqvi's story are accurate, including Dodge County Sheriff ...

A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and house immigrants detained for living in the U.S. illegally after a nearly yearlong ...

A conversation with Paul Bocanegra is awash in cognitive dissonance. How, I wonder, could the congenial middle-aged man sitting across from me at a coffee shop, apologizing profusely for being a few ...

Loudoun Supervisor Juli E. Briskman (D-Algonkian) on Thursday proposed freezing pay raises for county deputies unless Sheriff Mike Chapman cancels an agreement between his office and U.S. Immigration ...

57-year-old Gregory Lee Vogelsang, who sexually abused young boys, was eligible for a parole hearing under the Elderly Parole Program.

ABC4 has obtained new documents related to the Wayne County triple murder suspect and his arrest in Colorado on Thursday morning. He also made his first court appearance.

For Jennifer, the six-year sentence handed to her husband for a methamphetamine charge was supposed to be a period of rehabilitation and eventual reentry. Instead, she she claims correctional officers ...

Nine men are facing charges in connection with a Fort Wayne man’s death at Miami Correctional Facility. Trinidad J. Ramirez, 36, died at the prison Marcos Casares, 37, Doak McBride, 51, and Kyle Call, ...