Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump Administration claims Minnesota jails and prisons are releasing the "worst of the worst" instead of allowing ICE to ...

With time running out in the 2024 New York State legislative session, lawmakers in Albany should act to address the crisis on Rikers and other jails across the state. New Yorkers, particularly those ...

For years, Cuyahoga County has offered little help to people before releasing them from one of the worst jails in Ohio. That will end next month. A revamped reentry program to assist people as they ...

Demolition began Monday at the Passaic County Jail, the notorious lockup in downtown Paterson once dubbed the “worst” jail in the state for its squalid conditions. Just before sunrise, a wrecking crew ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive explore the extreme heat and overcrowded conditions of Florida's county jails, ...