The victim in a shocking jail abuse case is speaking out after receiving a $150,000 settlement. Learn more at Westword.com. Guard Groping Female Inmate Through Bars of Sexualized Jail Costs $150K ...

Four inmates cut their way through the bars of a second-story window and rappelled down the side of a California jail using a makeshift rope of bedding and clothing before making their way clear ...

Four prisoners cut their way through the bars of a second-story window and rappelled down the side of a San Jose jail using a makeshift rope of bedding and clothing before making their way clear ...

Studies show that children who have a parent in prison are most at risk themselves for ending up behind bars. Three women also tutor in the Cook County jail, helping detainees attain their GED while ...

Haywood County Sheriff Melvin Bond says the 23-year-old White, who was in jail on burglary charges, slipped through the cell bars early Monday, then used blankets to protect himself as he climbed ...

A day after the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office moved inmates into a new, $145 million jail, corrections experts appointed by a federal judge to monitor the jail's conditions toured the ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The Norfolk Sheriff’s Office is cracking down on contraband slipping through the jail bars. Some of it is arriving through book deliveries, so now such packages are being ...

A Minnesota county settled with a man who faced injuries while in jail. The county agreed to pay Terrance Dwayne Winborn $12.2 million in the settlement. He lost both his hands and had a heart ...