Wellpath, the private healthcare provider for Santa Rita Jail and most of the jails in California, came under fire for its medical treatment of incarcerated people, and it turns out that the sheriff ...

Creating a safe and just pretrial system in Minnesota requires more than small tweaks—we need a ground-up transformation.

State officials have said they have been able to track down and rearrest five of the 10 inmates who escaped last Friday ...

Jails in St. Louis, Cleveland and Jackson, Mississippi, don’t provide direct access to sunlight and fresh air – even when ...

See how prisoners escaped from Orleans Parish Prison, where 5 of 10 the inmates were caught, and the charges against those still at-large.

Cuyahoga County's new jail will provide “fresh air and natural light," officials say. It is expected to open in late 2008 or ...