The lawsuit alleges that jail staff and a private medical contractor failed to provide urgent medical care, which led to ...

Scott County Jail workers allowed a woman in mental distress to repeatedly bang her head against cell walls for hours without ...

Scott County Jail workers allowed a woman in mental distress to repeatedly bang her head against cell walls without ...

The number of Indigenous people behind bars is rising. But some judges are bucking the trend by taking a different approach.

Lester Isbill, 74, became unresponsive late Feb. 6 while in the custody of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. He'd been held for hours in a jail restraint chair.

The Iowa Office of Ombudsman released a 42-page report that jail staff failed to intervene and dismissed a woman's mental health crisis when she was detained.

After a series of deaths in the Montgomery County Jail, activists called on commissioners to take action on Tuesday. There were 18 deaths in the jail, located in downtown Dayton, reported to the state ...

Landmark review of NHS dementia care reveals 'culture of containment' where patients are drugged and prevented from leaving ...

All three of Bexar County's sitting Black judges lost their March 3 Democratic primary races while two Black attorneys vying for open court-at-law seats were unsuccessful.

What would your daily life look like if you suddenly ended up behind bars?

Less than one month after a brutal attack on a counselor and officer at the Lakeview Correctional Facility in Brocton, state Assembly Republicans this week offered legislation advancing 10 proposals ...