Earlier this month we reported a wide gap in data collected by a researcher at UT and jail managers. Leaders have since sent ...

Sheriff’s office says the earlier 964 figure was incomplete; new report shows about 3,500 detainers and 400 holds in 2025.

The man was found unresponsive around midnight Feb. 25. The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating the death.

New data is raising questions about how many immigration detainees passed through the Knox County Jail last year — and why ...

An inmate at the Burke County Jail died Wednesday after being found unresponsive in his cell last month. The Burke County Sheriff’s Office has requested that the North Carolina State Bureau of ...

SUMTER COUNTY, Ga. — Two suspected killers who escaped custody are now back in jail, according to a press release from the Sumter County Sheriff's Office. Authorities say Rickey Martin, 20, and ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The race to be the next mayor of Knox County has its first Democratic candidate following an announcement from local labor leader Beau Hawk. The 34-year-old is the president ...

Shelby County is suing the Tennessee Department of Corrections for refusing to pay for state inmates housed in county facilities. Housing these inmates has cost the county an estimated $127 million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of people on immigration holds has quadrupled in Knox County since President Donald Trump’s second term began. Winter ...

Oklahoma prisoners will soon be able to buy nicotine vapes and pouches while in prison, but Tulsa County jail inmates have been able to buy nicotine e-cigs in jail for years. Jail officials says it ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County’s mayor says the state is not paying its fair share to house almost 1,000 state inmates in the county, and the county has taken the matter to the state Claims Commission ...