CNN reported the Justice Department is asking that a former police officer found guilty of violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights when she was shot an killed in her home during a police raid be ...

Extra overtime for prison security staff ends as Hochul renews state of emergency for third time By ALEX GAULT agault@wdt.net May 15, 2025 ...

Criminal Justice The Harris County Jail passed a recent safety review with ‘technical assistance’ from state inspectors Since September 2022, the jail has repeated failed safety inspections ...

The Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Office Northern District held a press conference early Thursday afternoon to discuss the results of the civil investigation into the Fulton County Jail.

Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday approved a motion to declare a state of emergency at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, which state authorities have said was unsuitable to house youths because ...

Criminal Justice Harris County DA says intake division changes will ease case backlog, ‘humanitarian crisis’ in jail The intake division changes were part of Sean Teare’s campaign promises ...

Dallas County officials have labeled the jail a state of emergency, and they are looking as far as Miami-Dade County Florida for potential solutions.

U.S. Justice Department officials said jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county violate the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence ...

As Stearns County looks to move its jail out of downtown St. Cloud into a justice center containing the jail, law enforcement center and courts, the St. Cloud Times took a look at what the state ...

May 13—New York's prisons are still in a state of emergency, lacking the staff they need to run properly and relying on a detachment of National Guard troops to shore up security staff ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county are violating the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence, using excessive fo… ...