The state's prison capacity problem has worsened over the last year, with hundreds of inmates waiting in county jails for a ...

The prison warden circulated a note to inmates asking for suggestions on the kind of party they'd recommend for his 25th ...

Gage Walter cycled through jails and mental health and drug treatment facilities for nearly a decade. Then he killed his ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The fallout around the Shelby County Jail continues as the company that provides medical care for the inmates announced they filed for bankruptcy in another state. It is the ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections has announced the capture of a convicted killer who escaped on Christmas Eve.

Credit: Shelby Tauber for The Texas Tribune Some ... s death in a Louisiana prison that houses hundreds of Harris County inmates awaiting trial. Read Pooja's follow-up story, with photos from ...

Shelby County Jail had 2,583 inmates as of October, according to SCSO’s latest jail report card. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file) Booking and processing at 201 Poplar is taking days, leaving ...