A Fremont County jail deputy was arrested this month after allegedly choking an inmate, authorities announced Thursday. Luis Mora-Huerta, 62, was arrested Dec. 1 after investigators from the Colorado ...

CANYON COUNTY — Two Canyon County Detention Center inmates face $2 million bonds after a combination of the center’s staff diligence and teamwork stopped them from smuggling methamphetamine into the ...

Authorities are still searching for the last of three inmates who made a brazen escape down the outer wall of a Louisiana jail last week, after one inmate was cornered in a storage shed and taken into ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The election results in Arapahoe County were certified last week by the county’s canvass board, but not with apparent approval of the county’s Republican Party designee. Results from ...

Phones were down at Hillsborough County Department of Corrections in Manchester on Thanksgiving Day, preventing incarcerated people from talking with their loved ones on the holiday. The phones were ...

AIKEN — An inmate at the Aiken County Detention Center died on Nov. 29, according to a media release from the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office. The inmate’s identity is being withheld until next of kin ...

LIMON, Colo. — A convicted murderer was sentenced to decades of additional prison time after killing another inmate at Limon Correctional Facility in 2023. The 23rd Judicial District Attorney's Office ...

Two more inmates died inside the Harris County Jail this week, according to a spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, bringing the jail’s in-custody death total to 18 this year. The ...

Two men died Wednesday in the Harris County Jail, bringing the total number of in-custody deaths this year to 18, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Kerry Parks, 63, and Tony Davis, 66, ...

After nearly a month in the hospital, an inmate of the Shelby County women's jail, referred to as Jail East, has died, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office confirmed. Tiffany Dukes, 45, was brought to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Chris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he ...

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top. By Brian HoweyMukta Joshi ...