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Allegheny County Jail administrators review all use-of-force incidents and turn them over, when necessary, to Allegheny County Police, spokesman Jesse Geleynse has told TribLive.
Jeffery Hunter Jr spent over 6 years in the Bibb County Jail. A Macon jury acquitted him of murder and related charges last week, court records show.
Florida Man bonded women out of jail, then forced them into prostitution in FL, feds say By Julia Marnin June 23, 2025 12:03 PM ...
Public Safety Former Multnomah County corrections deputy accused of smuggling drugs to man in jail Updated: Jun. 18, 2025, 5:54 p.m. | Published: Jun. 18, 2025, 5:44 p.m.
A former detention officer faces federal charges over illegally tasing detainees at the Fulton County Jail in an excessive force case in GA, prosecutors say.
The jail supervisor “excessively” tased three men who were “compliant and non-threatening,” federal prosecutors said.
From 2023 through 2024, the commission issued 149 notices of noncompliance and referred the Harris County Jail to the Texas Attorney General’s Office earlier this year after repeated violations.
Jackson Man sentenced to jail, $10K fine for threatening Hillsdale school Published: Jun. 17, 2025, 11:48 a.m.
Dallas County officials have labeled the jail in a state of emergency, and they are looking as far as Florida’s Miami-Dade County for potential solutions. Over the past 20 years, Miami-Dade ...
Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until 2021, with the exception of two years. Along the way, he developed a ...
A public defender with a Queens nonprofit mired in controversy was hauled off in handcuffs after he was caught smuggling 130 sheets of suspected THC-soaked paper into a jail on Rikers Island, offic… ...
Larry Lokken served his 9.5-year prison sentence.EAU CLAIRE COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) - A former Eau Claire County treasurer who, along with a deputy treasurer, stole more than $1 million from taxpayers ...