On Feb. 4, deputies were notified by jail staff about an incident that happened on New Year’s Day, the sheriff’s department said in a news release. Igboka was involved in a physical ...

The law allows female heads of households to serve their sentences outside of prison, in exchange for unpaid community ...

A Colombian national was sentenced to 27 years for kidnapping two U.S. soldiers in Bogotá, with accomplices also facing ...

Prisoners are being sent back to jail by the probation service because it's the "easiest thing to do", rather than solely for public protection, the chief inspector of probation has told Sky News.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office, in collaboration with the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, has arrested a group of individuals involved in a series of residential burglaries.

HALIFAX - Richard MacInnis lives with the haunting memory of finding his friend’s body in a Halifax jail cell. That experience at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility on Jan. 15 ...

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong judge on Thursday sentenced a former pro-democracy lawmaker to three years and one month in prison on a charge of riot after an incident in which he was beaten up at ...

In June, the Journal reported that if outdoor temperatures fell below negative 2 degrees, the thermostat in some areas of the jail wouldn't go above the 56 to 64-degree range, according to ...

OXFORD – Surveillance video led Oxford police straight to a man now charged with car burglary. Police responded to the 2700 block of South Lamar Boulevard Feb. 20 to take a delayed auto theft ...

Suspect tried to smuggle more than €10,000 of cocaine from Cartagena to Amsterdam, Colombian authorities said. Politicians in the country want to prohibit the sale of such items, but they face ...

A Venezuelan opposition activist who was arrested during anti-government protests in January has died in jail, his party has said. Reinaldo Araujo, a leader of the Vente Venezuela party in ...

The U.S. military transported 17 new immigrant detainees to the Guantánamo Bay military base on Sunday, just before efforts to jail an anticipated 30,000 immigrants in tent camps at the base were ...