This book is a comprehensive review of prison law and policy, and legal practice from a practitioner’s perspective. It describes the sort of work that is done and how the author ended up behind bars ...

Salt Lake County may have given itself some breathing room by adding beds to its two detention centers this summer, but looming changes to overcrowding rules have jail officials feeling unsettled.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department admitted mistakes and problems in its jail booking process contributed to one detainee killing another. The admissions came after a civil grand jury report ...

Jerry Sandusky will likely spend the rest of his life in a state prison. Oct. 9, 2012— -- As convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky was led away from the Centre County, Pa., court house today, ...

Sheriff Kelly Martinez is asking county supervisors to consider a new model of jail oversight: hiring a third-party expert to oversee the doctors, nurses and mental health providers who staff San ...

An Omaha lawmaker's unannounced visit to the McCook-based state prison that's converting to an ICE detention center sparks ...