The US Justice Department has entered a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s Fulton County over jail conditions that federal investigators have described as inhumane, violent and unsanitary.

The town has a police department, but the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office manages the town's interim detention center and oversees its operations. Suspects are transferred to the Fairfax County ...

The Powhatan County School board is suing education advocate Kandise Lucas and Powhatan father Todd Skinger in federal court.

Washington County has taken possession of the former county jail on North College Avenue, but the facility is without cell ...

An Alexandria man turned himself into police in Fairfax County after being charged in a fatal hit and run that happened over ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The Linn County Sheriff’s Office has identified the inmate that died after being found unresponsive in his cell ... reported to the State Jail Inspector, and an ...

In the county jail off Chain Bridge Road in Fairfax, Denis Humberto Navarette Romero—a Honduran national charged with the rape of a woman in Herndon—sits in a solitary cell as Inmate No ...

Ellis County detention officer Isaiah Patrick Bias ... Monday as he was getting ready to escort the inmate back to his jail cell. “It was a heinous, horrific, purposeful murder, that was ...

Eight years ago in Courtroom 2H of Fairfax County General District Court ... Unmoved, the judge told Charles that a jail sentence would have to be imposed. Charles humbly asked her not to ...

Two Gallatin County Detention Center inmates are being charged with possession of dangerous drugs after cocaine was allegedly found inside their cell. California sees large population increase in ...

The unsettling reality in Fairfax ... Fairfax County. In Virginia, assault and battery against a law enforcement officer is a felony subject to a mandatory term of six months in jail requiring ...