Extra overtime for prison security staff ends as Hochul renews state of emergency for third time By ALEX GAULT agault@wdt.net May 15, 2025 ...

The Orleans Justice Center held its highest number of state inmates this year when 10 escaped. Experts say the overcrowding may have increased security risks.

Criminal Justice The Harris County Jail passed a recent safety review with ‘technical assistance’ from state inspectors Since September 2022, the jail has repeated failed safety inspections ...

West Virginia's top corrections official led a troubled state agency and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with problems of its own.

Criminal Justice Harris County DA says intake division changes will ease case backlog, ‘humanitarian crisis’ in jail The intake division changes were part of Sean Teare’s campaign promises ...

The Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Office Northern District held a press conference early Thursday afternoon to discuss the results of the civil investigation into the Fulton County Jail.

Two items on the Fulton County Commission's first agenda of 2025 were jail-related actions.

Jail officials in Georgia's most populous county are violating the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence, using excessive force and holding them ...

As Stearns County looks to move its jail out of downtown St. Cloud into a justice center containing the jail, law enforcement center and courts, the St. Cloud Times took a look at what the state ...

May 13—New York's prisons are still in a state of emergency, lacking the staff they need to run properly and relying on a detachment of National Guard troops to shore up security staff ...

U.S. Justice Department officials said jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county violate the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county are violating the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence, using excessive fo… ...