Nevada prisons have nearly 700 undocumented immigrants in custody, costing taxpayers about $24 million a year.

The Dayton Ombudsman Office provides weekly columns to the Dayton Daily News to bring awareness to issues it sees in the community.

The recent death of 26-year-old Aaron Sarles at the Jefferson County Jail is a tragic reminder of the critical need for ...

A high-profile inmate escape, the resignation of the prisons director, and reports that fences, doors and windows were ...

In recent years, the Milwaukee County Community Reintegration Center has shifted from an emphasis on punishment toward ...

President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail deported criminals from the United States. His prisons have earned him a ...

Law enforcement agencies are searching for a 44-year-old inmate who escaped from the Avoyelles Parish Jail on the evening of ...

The Avoyelles Parish Sheriff’s Office is searching for an offender who escaped from the DC-1 Jail Facility in Marksville.

Following the call, the Avoyelles Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Louisiana Department of Corrections’ Raymond Laborde ...

Whittington was suspected of impairment and was arrested and booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center on the following charges: Felony Hit and Run Vehicular Homicide Operating While ...

After asking the public for help, detectives identified an 18-year-old Center Point man and a 22 ... as well as into Avoyelles Parish, reads the release. The Avoyelles Parish Sheriff's Office ...

The students can then begin inking tattoos for inmate customers in the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center’s tattoo studio. The program is led by licensed tattoo artist Larry Normile of Artistic ...