Officials in Congress and in states from Pennsylvania to California said they were alarmed by a Bloomberg Law and NBC News ...

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he undergo after he’d been arrested for stealing ...

A 31-year-old woman from Bonney Lake died at the Pierce County Jail on Friday, with the cause of her death yet to be ...

A 39-year-old found dead at the Peoria County Jail this week has been identified as a Peoria woman. Pamela S. Wall was pronounced dead in her jail cell at 5:06 a.m. Tuesday, according to Peoria County ...

Concerns have been raised by a report into the prison death of a 31-year-old Torquay woman. Amy Cross died three hours after arriving at HMP Eastwood Park in 2023. She had been arrested in Torquay for ...

When someone dies in a San Diego County jail, the public typically learns only the basics: a name, an age, the charges that brought the person into custody and, months later, the medical examiner’s ...