During his long stay at the Orleans Parish lockup before he escaped last month, detainee Lenton Vanburen had racked up ...

Grant Hardin, known as the "Devil in the Ozarks," made his first court appearance through a video call on June 17, according ...

Accounts of reentry are notable as juvenile life without parole cases continue to undergo review. Attorneys and advocates say ...

According to an affidavit, Williams allegedly shut off the water to a cell where the 10 inmates later escaped.

After calling for help, state troopers and firefighters who arrived at the old Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill at about 12:04 a.m. on June 14 found him stuck in the cell and helped him out ...

The teens had been transferred to a private wing in the jail due to safety concerns at the youth detention center.

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote ...