A federal judge has appointed a lead monitor with three decades of experience in corrections to oversee a consent decree meant to address dangerous and unhealthy jail conditions in Georgia’s most ...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled in favor of an El Paso County transgender inmate who says her constitutional rights were violated when she was housed with male inmates.

Spiking - when someone gives someone drugs or alcohol without them knowing or consenting - will be made a criminal offence as ...

A 22-year-old Jackson man pleaded guilty to operating a "sextortion" scheme that included cyberstalking, extortion, and child ...

A New Jersey corrections officer was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday after admitting to assaulting a civilly committed sex offender who later died. Officer Giuseppe Mandara, 55, of Brick, ...

Brittney Griner left an event after seeing a note that read "Gay Baby Jail." Here's what the term actually means.

Joel Eduardo Broyles, 63, of Wichita Falls , pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one ...

Canyon County commissioners are planning a new, permanent women's jail facility. Join the public open house on March 20 to learn more and share your thoughts.

A woman convicted of ordering the kidnappings of two women whom prosecutors say were assaulted and threatened with torture was sentenced to 30 years and eight months to life in state prison.

The Board of County Commissioners has started a phased approach process to build a new women's facility on the Pond Lane ...

A man from St Ives who police view as being a "high risk sexual predator" of particular danger to teenage girls has been ...

A former Stamford resident was sentenced Tuesday to 320 months in federal prison for recording his sexual abuse of a minor. Servio Barros-Terreros, 58, a citizen of Ecuador, was sentenced by U.S.