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 ...

The 43-year-old Johnson County Jail is "crowded and aging," a report found. The sheriff is working toward a replacement. ... The sheriff's office was forced to saw the lock off to open the cell.