The town manager and the Finance Department have been working hard in recent months to craft a budget for the 2025-26 fiscal ...

Fulton County on Wednesday approved additional funding to pay overtime for jailers who work for the Sheriff’s Office and to support efforts to hire and retain them.

The recent jailbreak in New Orleans followed decades of dysfunction in the city's jail system and recent warnings that conditions were ripe for catastrophe.

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — The Pierce County jail is now housing juvenile inmates due to a staffing crisis and maintenance issues at the Remann Hall youth detention facility. So far, four juveniles ...

JAIL STAFFING AND JAIL POLICY AND PROCEDURES. A WRITTEN COMPLIANC An audit into the Orleans Parish jail began Tuesday, according to a news release issued by the Louisiana Department of Public ...

In Texas, each county jail requires a minimum ratio of one guard for every 48 inmates. For Polk County, that is not enough. Visit this article to learn more: <a href ...

The New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped from earlier this month is experiencing "significant flooding" from what a ...

Staffing shortages continue to be a thorn in Zenk’s side, however. The jail struggles with high turnover, in part because corrections officers frequently leave for higher paying police agencies ...

Ongoing staffing shortages at the Polk County Jail are prompting the sheriff’s office to begin housing inmates in a Louisiana jail facility. The county northeast of Houston has failed to comply ...

The recent escapes follow several other high-profile breakouts, like that of Danilo Cavalcante, a convicted murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison, sparking a two-week manhunt, and the escape ...