The seven Newport News City Jail inmates who escaped from their cells last week did so to be disorderly — they weren’t even ...

Some prison cell locks in "Old Max," built in 1878, are malfunctioning; Correctional officers union says the ACI has been without a locksmith for more than two years ...

That meant canceling a lock-improvement project at the Florence prison, among others. A few years later, in the 2011-2012 budget year, the Corrections Department began managing its own Building ...

Scott Thompson, left, and Scott Kielbasinski, right, look at restored sections of a cell block door lock system in the old Lake County jail in Crown Point.

St. Augustine's Old Jail was built in 1891 to accommodate the city's criminals. Financed by railroad giant Henry Flagler, the jail was designed to blend in with the rest of the Ancient City's ...