Even before she was sworn in as the 31st sheriff of San Diego County, the first woman to hold that job, Kelly A. Martinez knew the work ahead would be arduous. Martinez stepped in three years ago next ...

FOX Carolina Investigation reveals a history of security issues at detention center where two inmates recently escaped.

Document and be quiet,” one of the agents — who was holding a can of what appeared to be bear spray — told a person at the ...

A task force ordered by President Donald Trump to combat crime in Memphis, Tennessee, has made thousands of arrests. It's ...

A Lorain County corrections officer who was fired for an incident — which involved striking an inmate — has been reinstated ...

The following people have recently been booked into the Columbia County Justice and Detention Facility on Rawhide Road in Magnolia. All the following people are presumed innocent unless found guilty ...

Two more inmates died inside the Harris County Jail this week, according to a spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, bringing the jail’s in-custody death total to 18 this year. The ...

Nurses and guards in Oneida County, N.Y., cracked wise and complained about poor equipment as Antwan Cater lay unconscious in a drug-induced seizure. His father has filed a lawsuit in the case.

UNION — The Union County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man Monday, Nov. 17, for slaying his son in a shooting. According to a statement from the sheriff’s office, Richard Frank, 67, is in custody at the ...

Brian Howey, Mukta Joshi and Nate Rosenfield are reporters for Mississippi Today. They examined the power of sheriffs' offices as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship. This ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An inmate in the Washington County jail, being held on 20 counts of sexual assault and kidnapping, allegedly hired two other jail inmates to kill one of the victims he sexually ...

A 61-year-old Union County man charged with multiple counts of sex exploitation of a minor died by suicide in jail, a sheriff’s office press release said. Paul R. Metcalf was arrested after he ...