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The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office says an inmate died after an attempted suicide over the weekend. According to the sheriff ...

ROANE COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — An inmate from the Roane County Detention Facility is back in custody after escaping Saturday, ...

Inmate Benjamin R. Johnson was recaptured after escaping the Roane County Detention Facility, with additional charges pending.

A district court judge dismissed a lawsuit from the family of a man who died in the Tarrant County jail last year.

Inmate Michelle Cormier is being charged with murder after giving fentanyl-laced heroin to Shelbi Ervin, another inmate, who ...

Investigators with the state Department of Law Enforcement opened a first-degree murder investigation this morning after a 33-year-old inmate at the Oahu Community Correctional Center was found dead.

While imprisoned and awaiting trial, Nelson was indicted in the killing of another inmate — a charge for which he was never tried. Steven Nelson, 37, and his wife, Helene Noa Dubois, and their ...

The cause of Adams' death has not been determined, but NDCS said he was being treated for a medical condition. Whenever an inmate dies in custody, a grand jury conducts an investigation.

A 36-year-old inmate at the Tarrant County Jail died over the weekend from complications following an attempt to kill himself ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — The death of inmate Robert L. Brooks, who was brutally beaten by multiple New York state corrections officers, has been ruled a homicide, according to a family lawyer.