Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ANDERSON — Instead of merely "warehousing" people, local criminal justice officials want to provide rehabilitation services at the ...

FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. (AP) - A sheriff in southeastern Missouri says two inmates have been recaptured after escaping from the county jail. Madison County Sheriff Robert Spain says 22-year-old Matthew ...

Madison County officials are supporting a bill to help counties handle rising jail costs. During Tuesday’s Fiscal Court meeting, Madison County Deputy Judge Jill Williams read a resolution urging the ...

MDOC said the class was offered through a partnership with the Mississippi Community Financial Access Coalition and Guaranty Bank.

ROCK COUNTY, Wis. (WKOW) — Seven men are charged after investigators say synthetic cannabinoids were smuggled into the Rock County Jail over several months, leading to multiple inmate overdoses. Rock ...

RICHMOND, Ky. (WKYT) - Kentucky State Police are investigating the death of a former inmate after an altercation with officers at the Madison County Detention Center. In a statement to WKYT, Madison ...

DODGE COUNTY, Wis. (WKOW) -- The Dodge County Sheriff's Office is seeking help from the public to locate an inmate who went missing. 27-year-old Luis Perez-Cerna had court ordered Huber privileges ...

County jail inmates across the region are suffering from preventable circumstances due to a lack of uniform health care standards and resources. Several have died before ever even stepping foot into a ...

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 ...