A search is underway for four inmates who escaped from a correctional center in central Alabama Saturday, authorities said. The inmates escaped the Perry County Correctional PREP Center in Uniontown, ...

A Tuscaloosa County judge has authorized jail officials to involuntarily medicate a murder suspect after mental health staff said he posed a danger to himself and others while in custody ...

He was observed consuming feces and has become increasingly "more dangerous and problematic," according to the doctor ...

The recovered contraband included 40 grams of amphetamine/methamphetamine tablets, 780 grams of marijuana, 34 grams of sprayed paper, four folding knives, 19 cell phones, 11 sets ...

The Henry County Sheriff's Office said a former deputy was charged with assault and battery following an incident with an inmate back in November.

Six inmates escaped late Thursday from the River Bend Detention Center in Lake Providence, said a spokesperson for the East Carroll Parish Sheriff’s Office. The following inmates escaped, according a ...

A ban on sending books and magazines to inmates in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the ...

Leaders of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) are ill at ease that the much touted Atiku Abubakar/Peter Obi ticket may not materialise ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Various efforts by ...

The last of three inmates who escaped a St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, jail after removing mortar and concrete blocks from a jail wall has been captured more than two weeks after escaping, authorities ...

An Arkansas Department of Corrections inmate who escaped from a work release assignment last week at the Port of Little Rock was captured near Mayflower on Nov. 20. Wayne Schutz, an inmate in Benton ...