The Twilight Zone may not have been known for its Christmas spirit. Still, the long-lasting franchise has produced some ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections’ website has searchable information on inmates, including infractions, classes ...

Under pressure from consent decrees, lawsuits and grand jury recommendations, Southern California counties take measures to ...

A man was sentenced to life in prison for stabbing a woman to death on a Metro train in Los Angeles. Elliot Tramel Nowden, 47 ...

California has two prisons that primarily house women. At the larger prison, the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, former guard Gregory Rodriguez was found guilty of 64 counts of ...

Jail administrators in L.A., Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties struggle to meet the needs of a population that is ...

This searchable database created by the Southern California News Group contains details about every jail death in the region ...

The director of Idaho's prison system has laid out plans to increase protections against sexual abuse of inmates and to increase accountability for those accused. The move comes ...

Superintendent Ian Roberts' arrest, LinkedIn posts on his account describe how he's spending his time in the Polk County Jail ...

For months, Central Texans had been praying for rain. But here, beside a bend in the Guadalupe River, where a dusty floodplain extended for hundreds of yards in every direction, each day of drought ...

SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. — Joseph Brown has been located near CR 675. He is in custody. No additional information is currently available. An inmate has escaped from the Sumter County Detention Center, ...

A South Carolina firing squad has executed a man Friday, the third person to die by that method in the state this year. Three prison employees, all with live ammunition, volunteered to carry out the ...