Now, an inspection report issued back on April 10 states that incarcerated people at the Harris County Jail were deprived of mattresses. According to state code, inmates may be deprived of ...

Building on previously successful inmate programs, including the creation of a pre-release unit for women, a Family Support ...

Officials from the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office gathered at the Middlesex Jail & House of Correction to celebrate the ...

Autopsy pending for former Richland County Jail inmate Robert Johnson, 59, of Savannah; Cause of death of Dominic Hancock, 45, of Nova, brain bleed.

On average it costs approximately $45 per day to house inmates who should be in a state ... “It's expensive to run a jail and things as simple as a mattress cost well over $100; uniforms ...

mattresses, the light bill, the water bill," Goldsmith said. Some smaller counties are now feeling the pinch. Tippecanoe County, which overbudgeted locally, can cover the added costs. Counties are ...

There aren’t any cells within the unit, which instead features an open layout with raised beds and thicker mattresses to accommodate the elder inmates, of whom 14 presently occupy the space.