A strip search of a woman in the La Plata County jail usually went like this: undress, lift your right breast so a deputy can look underneath. Lift your left breast. Show behind your ears, in your ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A former female inmate says strip searches were common in the La Plata County jail in Durango, but she was not sure why. She is one of 18 women who have joined a federal class action ...

The La Plata County Jail in Durango is wrapped up in a criminal investigation where recordings of female inmates during strip searches were allegedly used for sexual gratification.

Authorities have identified the woman who died while in custody at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna early ...

Former Florida Women's Reception Center corrections officer Adrian Hernandez was arrested for allegedly battering an inmate. Hernandez faces charges of malicious battery on an inmate and falsifying a ...

Authorities have arrested a convict who escaped a northern Minnesota jail workhouse after a two-week-long search.

She is now facing a first degree felony charge of fentanyl murder and a second degree felony charge of manslaughter in her ...