Police in southeast Connecticut are investigating after a man allegedly fatally beat his 6-year-old stepson with a baseball bat in what detectives are calling a brutal...
Ruihan Yang | Boston University Statehouse Program When women and girls don’t have access to menstrual products, they have to “just bleed and pray” that their...
The number of empty seats on Oklahoma County’s jail trust is back to two. Chad Alexander, who was appointed to the trust in October 2021 by...
HARTFORD CITY, Ind. — A Delaware County man admitted trying to smuggle meth to his son through a small hole in a window at the Blackford County...
An Alabama inmate with “serious mental and psychiatric needs” was placed in a concrete drunk tank known as “the freezer” before he later died from hypothermia...
State lawmakers want to earmark $250 million for local jail construction and renovations — an idea that county officials applaud. If approved, it’ll be a massive...
Oklahoma County needs to decide soon where to build the new jail, a citizens oversight board decided Tuesday. Even though the board did not recommend a...
Clark Kauffman | Iowa Capital Dispatch A former state corrections officer has been awarded jobless benefits after being arrested for an alleged drunken incident involving his...
Organizers of Oklahoma County’s latest warrant clearance event already are looking forward to the next one in February. Bob Ravitz, Oklahoma County chief public defender, said...
Oklahoma County has hired a contractor to work with architects to build the new county jail, despite not knowing where it will be built or exactly...
