Ontario Premier Doug Ford defended his government's plan to build many more jails, saying the billions in cost will be worth it. Ontario's jails are well over capacity and the overcrowding has been ...

Six-month assessment will examine Warren County jail needs and operations ...

Iowa sheriffs are warning of a breaking point as prison overcrowding forces counties to shuffle inmates at high costs. Will ...

Houston County Jail down nearly 100 inmates since hitting capacity six months ago, after officials paused arrests and ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal court in Alabama denied summary judgment to Tuscaloosa County on a state-law claim for the wrongful death of a man sentenced to 30 days in jail on allegations that ...

East Tennessee jails have grabbed plenty of headlines in the region lately. From the recent inmate escape in Grainger County to the push for a safety center in Knox County, their impact on East ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Central Regional Jail in Charleston, West Virginia. (Photo by Lexi Browning/ West Virginia Watch) As federal judges have ...

The Polis administration is asking for hundreds of millions of dollars to expand the state’s prison system, just as Colorado’s legislators are bracing for a worsening fiscal outlook. The request sets ...

New data shows the vast majority of the province's correctional facilities are operating with far more inmates than they were ...