A Clay County facilities worker holds up a bundle of cloth found in a pipe at the Clay County Detention Center. A recent ...

A series of sewage leaks caused by Clay County Jail inmates forced the sheriff's department to move several of its units to ...

A federal inmate faces a first-degree murder charge after officials say he shot a Cherokee County officer June 30 while escaping a medical facility.

Members of the McLean County Board's finance committee have recommended that the county settle with a former jail inmate who ...

Some 129 inmates awaiting transfer to state facilities will finally be allowed to leave county custody, beginning this week, following a monthslong freeze of such transfers.

CLAY CENTER — No charges will be filed in the death of an inmate at the Clay County jail, a grand jury has ruled.

The Harris County Jail reported three inmate deaths within just over 24 hours, according to the sheriff's office.

A detainee subjected to months of physical and sexual abuse inside the Douglas County jail became pregnant after she was repeatedly assaulted by a former jailer, she said in a lawsuit. The woman ...

Cape Girardeau County’s new jail is nearing completion, with state inspection of modular cells set for June 24 and inmate intake expected by mid-August, officials reported at the latest ...

Elijah Lester Isbill, 74, died in February after nine hours in a restraint chair. Isbill’s case also adds another case to a ...

A Duval County Jail inmate died at a Jacksonville hospital Wednesday after a medical emergency just before their court appearance, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.Jaymin Winn, 30, was ...