Ontario Premier Doug Ford defended his government's plan to build many more jails, saying the billions in cost will be worth ...

Iowa sheriffs are warning of a breaking point as prison overcrowding forces counties to shuffle inmates at high costs. Will ...

New data shows the vast majority of the province's correctional facilities are operating with far more inmates than they were ...

Marion County Sheriff Kerry Forestal called on state and federal officials this week to begin moving inmates they have placed at the local jail as quickly as possible to avoid overcrowding that he ...

Houston County Jail down nearly 100 inmates since hitting capacity six months ago, after officials paused arrests and ...

East Tennessee jails have grabbed plenty of headlines in the region lately. From the recent inmate escape in Grainger County to the push for a safety center in Knox County, their impact on East ...

The Polis administration is asking for hundreds of millions of dollars to expand the state’s prison system, just as Colorado’s legislators are bracing for a worsening fiscal outlook. The request sets ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal court in Alabama denied summary judgment to Tuscaloosa County on a state-law claim for the wrongful death of a man sentenced to 30 days in jail on allegations that ...

Sheriff Mark Harrell says 198 inmates are in the process of returning to the facility from 11 other jails statewide.