High above the River Orb, the cathedral of Béziers dominates this plain beside the French Mediterranean. Next to the cathedral is the town jail. After the prisoners moved out in 2009, the architects ...

Nadya Tolokonnikova, the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, is back in a prison cell -- but this time, she has gone willingly.

Eight people, including four inmates, were arrested in a drug smuggling ring at Bexar County jail, with three deputies linked but not charged, according to Sheriff Javier Salazar.

Two former Monroe County jail deputies plead guilty to misconduct charges involving inmate fights, cell search alerts ROCHESTER, N.Y.

The failure to investigate the Orleans Parish Correctional Facility as a crime scene by Sheriff Susan Hutson could harm prosecutors in the case, an ex-FBI agent says.

The jail cell that held Cassia County’s most notorious desperado, Diamondfield Jack, stands today in the Oakley City Park. According to one account, it was moved from Albion when Oakley’s jail ...

Authorities said Tra'Von Johnson, 22, who escaped from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail about a year ago, had accomplished the same feat again.

A fifth person has been arrested in connection with the escape of 10 inmates last week from a New Orleans jail, authorities said. New Orleans police said Friday that 29-year-old Casey Smith ...

More than 600 vents in cells at the Genesee County Jail have been targeted for removal -- a wholesale replacement that officials say is needed to limit attempted suicides and the county’s ...

Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams scorched Sheriff Susan Hutson for failing to order an investigation into the crime scene where 10 inmates escaped from jail.

A maintenance worker shut off water at the jail, allowing the inmates to remove a toilet and sink fixture from a cell wall, according to the Louisiana attorney general’s office. On Tuesday, a ...

Authorities say 10 men broke out of a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet.