DES MOINES, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau) -- For the seventh straight year, Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand, a Democrat, is asking Republicans in the legislature to toughen punishments ...

Twenty people died in 2025 in the Harris County Jail, the state’s largest pre-trial detention system, which has faced years of understaffing, overcrowding and wrongful death lawsuits. The death toll ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A lawsuit filed on behalf of 38 current and former detainees at the Los Angeles County women’s jail alleges male ...

A man being held in the Mecklenburg County Detention Center has died after experiencing a medical emergency the day after Christmas, according to sheriff’s office. It’s the fourth in-custody death of ...

A magistrate judge said he was concerned that the defendant, Brian Cole Jr., had continued after Jan. 6, 2021, to purchase components similar to those prosecutors said he had used to make pipe bombs.

Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates? By Jan Ransom Jan Ransom has been covering the ...

A recently released cache of surveillance video from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City is raising new questions about the prison cameras at the facility where Jeffrey Epstein died ...

In the early morning hours of Friday, at approximately 3 a.m., Corrections deputies discovered an unresponsive inmate during a welfare check in the Bravo housing unit, and additional personnel ...

OCEANSIDE, Calif — Why bring your own toys to the beach when you could just borrow a toy? In September 2025, a wooden toy box was installed in Oceanside on The Strand, south of the children's ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left a hospital in capital Brasilia on Thursday, a week after he underwent a double hernia surgery. A car took the embattled ex-leader ...