The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will no longer allow books with hard covers in an effort to prevent drugs from getting into their facilities, they announced Friday.

At issue is a disparity in how much it costs to house a federal inmate or detainee, and how much the Marshals reimburse the county.

Because of problems with drugs being smuggled into prison , TDCJ is banning the sending of hardback books to inmates. The ...

What happened to Offutt is part of a series of county lapses that have caused overdetentions for at least three years. Still, people are being held ...

The two are alleged to have exchanged explicit information about and contact information for several teenage girls ...

The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death.

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A review of Gantchev's death remains ongoing, Stevens said. ICE previously said Gantchev died on Dec. 15, in the Baldwin ...

Federal immigration officials plan to spend $38.3 billion to boost detention capacity to 92,600 beds, a document released ...

A judge ruled that the Trump administration’s plan to send the men to the nation’s harshest prison rendered their attempts to challenge the transfer a “sham” process.

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top. By Brian HoweyMukta Joshi ...

NOT THE FIRST TIME IT’S HAPPENED. I WANT TO MAKE A SINCERE APOLOGY TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS SHERIFF SUSAN HUTSON APOLOGIZES AFTER OPSO DEPUTIES MISTAKENLY RELEASED AN INMATE FROM THE JAIL TEN ...