Jacob Fatu was locked up in jail when he turned on the TV and saw a wrestling match that changed his life forever.

A Towanda woman who was already in jail has been arrested after police say she broke the window on her cell door, as stated ...

Jails in St. Louis, Cleveland and Jackson, Mississippi, don’t provide direct access to sunlight and fresh air – even when ...

A correctional officer at California Medical Facility in Vacaville was attacked and injured while trying to remove an inmate ...

The only view is a fluorescent-lit hallway visible through a small window ... cell around the same time was on the same waitlist roughly five months. He faced near-daily stints in the jail's ...

Jails in Cleveland and other cities don’t provide direct access to sunlight and fresh air – even when their own policies ...

The recent jailbreak in New Orleans followed decades of dysfunction in the city's jail system and recent warnings that ...

As a trial looms for the man accused of killing the 19-year-old in a hate crime, Laureano's mother seeks answers — and ...

According to the sheriff’s office, when Buchanan got to the jail, he began yelling and ... began wiping his feces on the glass window and door of the cell. Buchanan was arrested for driving ...

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Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling ...