(Those sentenced who were considered maximum security prisoners would have served their time at the Maine State Prison in Thomaston, built in 1824). A new York County Jail was built in the 1970s ...

On Rikers [Island, the New York City prison], for example, there are cell doors that don’t have locks, which is hard to imagine how you run a jail or prison ... Tell me more about the PLRA. How has ...

A New York Times investigation found that the county sometimes jailed people ... “I found out he was in custody because he called me from the jail,” the probation officer told English Cantú ...

A Maine man who called 911 after his girlfriend was shot during an argument has been arrested in connection with her death, ...

Editor's note: Jolie McCullough reported from Eagle Pass, Texas, as part of the Local Investigations Fellowship at The New York ... county judge. Sheriff Tom Schmerber, who has overseen the jail ...

York County Jail Sergeant Colton Sweeney earned a Mat Baker Award, named in memory of the late chief deputy. Sweeney was also to be named Officer of the Year by the Maine Sheriff’s Association.

David Batts died Jan. 8 after he was beaten by Knox County ... New York City Department of Corrections officer. He said Batts should have had more medical care when he reached the jail but that ...

The sentence for a murder conviction in Maine is 25 years to life in prison. Godfrey, transported to York County jail following his arrest, is scheduled for an initial court appearance Friday at 1 p.m ...

Khaleda joined Newsweek in 2019 and had previously worked at the MailOnline in London, New York and Sydney ... Edric Wilson, now 47, was held in Harris County Jail after being charged in 2006 ...

A Maine man has been charged with murder for allegedly shooting his girlfriend during a struggle over a gun last weekend. Jeremiah Godfrey, 43, of South Berwick, was arrested around noon Wednesday on ...

A woman is in jail in the Brevard County after police charged her with child abuse. Savannah Morgan Keys worked at “Jelly Bean Junction Early Learning Center” on New York Avenue in Melbourne.