Firing squad executes Brad Keith Sigmon in South Carolina A firing squad in South Carolina executed Brad Keith Sigmon for the beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend’s...
A public safety sales tax election in Oklahoma County to help pay for a new jail is closer after the Board of County Commissioners voted Wednesday...
Detainees are routinely subjected to the threat of stabbings, sexual assault and gang violence inside the crumbling walls of a South Carolina jail, according to a...
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...
