A Devonshire woman who said she accidentally brought cannabis into a prison has been sentenced to a year behind bars. Lavida Codrington, 37, pleaded guilty in November to charges that she brought ...

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A Cuban immigrant who lived in the U.S. for nearly three decades died in a Texas immigration facility during an altercation with guards. While the local medical examiner has indicated his death ...

This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006 edition of the, The dogs went to the Lassen County Board of ...

The federal lawsuit in Louisiana is the third to be filed in connection to Harris County Jail inmates who died after being outsourced to LaSalle Correctional Center, one of the privately owned ...

The lawsuit alleges that Erik Carlson, 29, died on Jan. 25, 2025, after jail staff repeatedly ignored his pleas for medical ...

Isaiah Mark Bailon, a 26-year-old resident of Barstow, was told on Jan. 14 during a hearing in Victorville that he faced up ...

A year-and-a-half after the In-Custody Death Review Division was created within a state agency, the office has yet to obtain ...

A 38-year-old inmate at a Maryland prison was found dead in his cell, prompting an investigation by State Police.

A Barstow man recently arrested in a brutal assault on two women during a robbery and carjacking in Hesperia is now suspected ...

Federal officials say an immigrant from Nicaragua has been found dead at a Texas immigration detention facility. Immigration ...

A federal jury awarded $250,000 to a group of former DeKalb County jailers who faced repeated sexual harassment by the ...