The prison was built in 1990 and then shuttered in 2009 amid budget cuts. Aside from minor upkeep, it has sat abandoned ever since, though it was used as a film set in 2014 .

LOCKPORT, N.Y. (WKBW) — A Lockport man has been sentenced to prison in connection with a deadly stabbing in Niagara Falls in 2024. The Niagara County District Attorney's Office announced that 33 ...

Three inmates of Native American ancestry are suing Rhode Island’s prison system, claiming their religious rights are being violated by not being allowed to par ...

The jail denials have slowed this year, and a 192-bed addition to the jail should eliminate the need for the tactic, Sheriff Jesse Jahner said.

Public Safety; Contraband entering federal prison in Sheridan through drone and duffel bag drops, feds say. Published: ; Jun. 13, 2025, 7:00 a.m.

Authorities are asking residents of Bell County to help them locate an escaped inmate, Nicole Adele Gaffney, who walked away from the Bell County Jail at 12:25 p.m. Friday.

Michael Madigan, once the most powerful figure in Illinois politics, was sentenced to seven and a half years in federal prison Friday, Crain’s reported.The sentencing capped one of the most ...

Task force recommends $600M men's prison, down from DOC's $825M ask State House Majority Leader Scott Odenbach, R-Spearfish, made a motion to limit the total budgetary cost for the construction of ...

That number is nearly 1,000 more than the current jail's rated capacity. A new jail could house men, women and children in one space — currently, women are at Jail East, near Shelby Farms, and ...

Authorities are investigating whether one of the two inmates still on the run after last month's New Orleans jail escape posted a social media video, claiming the jailbreak wasn't his idea.. On ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities arrested a former New Orleans jail employee on Monday and accused her of aiding in the 10-inmate breakout at the facility last month, which included ...

U.S. District Judge Adrienne Nelson will begin calculating $500 daily fines for each person left waiting in a local jail more than a week before admission to the state’s psychiatric hospital. A ...