An employee at the Polk County Jail is now in the jail herself and charged with two crimes. Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons ...

The offense(s) listed may be the initial booking charge or an amended charge. They are not an admission of guilt, nor do they guarantee a conviction of any/all charges listed. All parties are ...

A jailed Texas man fatally assaulted a detention officer as he was being taken back to his cell, authorities say. The Ellis County ... in the jail since November, charged with assaulting a public ...

BROOKVILLE — A new program to assist inmates with a variety of programs was explained to the Jefferson County Jail Board Tuesday morning. Warden Dustin Myers said, “We are looking at getting ...

California recorded historically high numbers of deaths in county jails for ... will put pressure on jail systems that are already ill-equipped to handle more inmates. “We’ve been claiming ...

A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers issued a new subpoena on Tuesday, requiring the state's prison system to allow death row inmate Robert Roberson to testify in person about the state's junk ...

A bipartisan committee of Texas lawmakers again issued a subpoena compelling the state's prison system to let death row inmate Robert Roberson provide testimony at the Capitol about his murder ...

(WIAT) — The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday the arrest of a 56-year-old man after seizing ... His bond totaled $26,000, and he is out on bond from the Jefferson County Jail. On ...

A Pennsylvania jail retaliated against inmates suspected of smoking synthetic ... rights of people incarcerated at Dauphin County Prison, a 1,000-person lockup outside the state capital of ...

Texas lawmakers subpoenaed death row inmate Robert Roberson to testify at the State Capitol Roberson faces execution for the death of his two-year-old daughter back in 2002 AUSTIN, Texas - Texas ...

ELLIS COUNTY, Texas — An Ellis County detention officer died after being assaulted by an inmate at the county jail Monday, officials announced Tuesday. Isaiah Bias, 28, was "doing his daily job ...

Norman said as Bias directed Thompson back to his cell, he was viciously attacked by the inmate. An arrest ... County Wayne McCollum Detention Center. Video recordings from inside the jail inside ...