New ‘criminal code’ in Afghanistan also legalises ‘Caste-like slavery’, prescribes flog-at-sight for ‘sinners’ & proposes 3 months’ jail for wife visiting kin without ‘permission’.

This week, at least 3,000 protesters are languishing in prisons that activists have described as 'slaughterhouses', having ...

Detroit — Demolition of the former Wayne County Jail is underway as part of a planned redevelopment of the area east of Greektown into a life sciences district. Crews began razing the former jail, ...

The Los Angeles jail where Nick Reiner is being held on two charges of first degree murder has a star-studded history with a reputation for harsh conditions. Page Six can confirm Twin Towers ...

A routine facility check at a county jail just east of Atlanta on Monday morning suddenly turned into a manhunt after officials discovered three men, all accused of violent crimes, had escaped the ...

Three inmates — including one who was being held on a murder charge — have escaped from a county jail just east of Atlanta, authorities said. The breakout happened early Monday morning at the DeKalb ...

Nick Reiner is being held in America’s largest mental health jail, which is notorious for its rat-infested and urine-soaked “inhumane” conditions — a far cry from the Brentwood mansion he lived in ...

Drug overdoses are suspected in the Monday deaths of two Spokane County Jail inmates, according to the county government’s spokesperson. Officials are investigating the deaths and how drugs were ...

ATLANTA — Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat says a fire inside Fulton County Jail sent nine people to the hospital on Friday night. The sheriff confirmed that five detainees and four sheriff’s office ...

Sherrone Moore, 39, is no longer in custody at the Washtenaw Corrections Division after posting bond two days after his arrest Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Sherrone Moore is out of jail. The recently fired ...

CHARLESTON — The coroner’s office has labeled a young woman’s death inside the jail a homicide, stating she died from complications of fentanyl, recent cocaine use and medical neglect. Mary Brucato, ...

The last of three inmates who escaped a St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, jail after removing mortar and concrete blocks from a jail wall has been captured more than two weeks after escaping, authorities ...