A Marshall County man being held on larceny charges died while in custody at the Lafayette County Detention Center. John Leath Halley Jr., 48, of Byhalia, was unresponsive in his cell during routine ...

Two Texas jail guards allegedly left an inmate trapped inside a cell where a mattress fire was raging — leaving the prisoner ...

An inmate died after a fire started inside his prison cell, and now two guards are facing charges, Texas officials say. The ...

Two former TDCJ employees are charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide following an inmate's death in the ...

Crystal Janelle West and William Eugene Romero allegedly refused to help Corey Bavousett after he is understood to have set ...

Texas prison guards Crystal West and William Romero are charged with felonies after allegedly failing to help an inmate whose ...

An investigation was underway into the death of a 55-year-old man who was in custody at San Diego Central Jail and died at a hospital, authorities reported Thursday.

ATLANTA (AP) — A monthslong search for the only Louisiana inmate still on the run after an audacious May jailbreak ended ...

Two Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees were arrested Sunday at the Bill Clements Unit in Amarillo after an inmate died.

All 10 fugitives who made a brazen escape from a New Orleans jail in May are back in custody after the last inmate was ...

The sheriff's office said that 34-year-old Pebbles Girardi suffered a sudden medical emergency inside of her cell at the ...