Treat a man like an animal and he’ll act like one. That’s a core premise of Doug Burris, the city’s interim commissioner of ...

It’s the Victorian ‘Town Lock Up’ once described by a senior police officer as “not a pleasant place.” ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Signs of squalor are everywhere: inmates sleeping on floors, rotting food, piles of trash, inoperable toilets, broken pipes, lack of hygiene supplies. But political paralysis remains.

A San Antonio woman raises concerns about her spouse facing faulty air conditioning at Bexar County Jail for two months.

(KRON) — Santa Rita Jail’s inmate healthcare provider agreed to pay $2.5 million to the children of Maurice Monk, attorneys announced Thursday. The inmate was allegedly deceased inside… ...

PRISON service bosses were today savaged by a ... precaution for the Scottish Prison Service prior to September 2021” to have removed and replaced the toilet cubicle door in Jack's cell, ...

Prison officers failed to properly check up on an inmate who had taken his own life in prison, a probe has found. Jack McKenzie was pronounced dead in his cell at Polmont Young Offenders Institute ...

Failing to discipline prison officers after an inmate took his own life “condoned” bad practice at a young offenders’ institution, the Scottish Prison Service has been warned by a sheriff. Jack ...

The sheriff wrote it “would have been a reasonable precaution for the Scottish Prison Service prior to September 2021, to have removed and replaced the toilet cubicle door in Jack’s cell, or ...

Jack McKenzie was pronounced dead on 3 September 2021 after hanging himself using the toilet cubicle door in his cell. A similar inquiry was also conducted into the deaths of Katie Allan and William ...

All I had in my pocket was £5 to buy some phonecards – prison currency – as I was taken by guards from the doggy box towards my cell in D Hall. It was late afternoon, early evening ...