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 ...

Three inmates who escaped from a jail east of Atlanta, including one who was being held on a murder charge, used jail phones to call friends on the outside who met them and arranged a Lyft ride to ...

A routine facility check at a county jail just east of Atlanta on Monday morning suddenly turned into a manhunt after officials discovered three men, all accused of violent crimes, had escaped the ...

UTICA, N.Y. -- A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage was sentenced Friday to 25 years to ...

Editor's note: Dalynn Kee's age was incorrect in a previous version of this story. She was 21, an adult, when she died in 2019. This version has been corrected.

Wiz Khalifa was sentenced in absentia to nine months in prison in Romania following an appeal of a drug case brought after the rapper allegedly smoked weed on stage last year. The rapper (real name ...

Nick Reiner is being held in America’s largest mental health jail, which is notorious for its rat-infested and urine-soaked “inhumane” conditions — a far cry from the Brentwood mansion he lived in ...

Rodney Hinton, the man accused of intentionally hitting and killing Hamilton County deputy Larry Henderson, is facing a new charge, accused of assaulting an officer at the jail where he's being ...

A 50-year-old state prison inmate in Yuma died Dec. 11 after he was apparently attacked by fellow inmates, state corrections officials say. The death of Leon Indian, who was in prison serving a ...

Recently fired Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore remains in jail, but it is unclear when he may appear in court in connection to a possible criminal assault investigation. Washtenaw County ...

South Korean crypto entrepreneur and prosecuted fraudster Do Kwon was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a US federal judge in the Southern District of New York on Thursday. Kwon cut a solemn figure ...