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 ...

An Orleans Parish district judge handed down two life sentences to Derrick Groves, the New Orleans inmate who had spent ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections generated its first report with every prison death in its system. Here’s how to use it ...

Mary Brucato, a 23-year-old Ladson resident, died Aug. 11, three days into her stay at the Charleston County jail. Coroner ...

One inmate remains on the run after a group of three removed mortar and concrete blocks from a jail wall in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, to make their escape this week, the sheriff’s office said ...

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 ...

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

Brian Howey, Mukta Joshi and Nate Rosenfield are reporters for Mississippi Today. They examined the power of sheriffs' offices as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship. This ...

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top. By Brian HoweyMukta Joshi ...

Correspondent Bob Woodruff explores endangered territories in the docuseries. ABC News Live's original docuseries "Last Lands," the Emmy-nominated and Webby-winning show, is returning for season 2, ...