Jails are overrun with people on drugs, struggling with mental illness and poor health. How are sheriffs handling the challenges?

After several meetings since June on the possibilities for a new jail, the Fond du Lac County Jail Ad Hoc Committee released ...

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office invited media to tour the Shelby County Jail. A CA reporter saw deteriorating conditions and broken infrastructure.

HICKORY COUNTY, Mo. — An inmate in the Dallas County jail has been charged in Hickory County for alleged sexual abuse of a seven-year-old girl. According to online court records, Brandon Haney ...

Jeffery Adair, 42, was booked into the Dallas County jail on a murder charge in the death of Michael Dent. Officers found Dent about 2:10 p.m. Dec. 2 when they responded to a shooting call in the ...

The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office has notified the public of the year’s first in-custody death at the county jail after an inmate ... news reporter with The Dallas Morning News.

Texas — The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office recently hired Dallas County’s former top jail official to run Tarrant County’s jail system amid scrutiny over a spike in jail deaths.

Weekend shifts for detention officers at the Dallas County Jail went from being determined by seniority to being determined by gender in 2019, according to the women’s lawsuit filed in the ...

The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office says an inmate died after an attempted suicide over the weekend. According to the sheriff's office, the 36-year-old was booked into the jail on Feb. 4 and died ...

“With the upcoming SPLOST, we hope to set aside 51 million of that money to go towards a new jail pod at our Bulloch County Jail,” said Cindy Steinmann, Interim County manager. This would add around ...

Harold Thompson was sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting Gabriella Gonzalez in 2023 Dallas County jail A Texas man convicted of killing his girlfriend because she had an abortion has ...