Ashtabula County officials revealed early conceptual renderings for a new jail facility that would more than double the current capacity and address decades-old infrastructure challenges.

Nicolás Maduro will have already spent more than 24 hours in one of the toughest US jails when he appears in court Monday to face charges that could keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.

Unlocked: A Jail Experiment Season 2 premieres January 8, 2026, on Netflix, shifting the bold prison social experiment to Arizona as inmates test self-governance with unlocked cells

Since updating a federal contract in April to allow the Brown County Jail to take in ICE detainees, the jail has housed 61 individuals for ICE.

We are learning new details about how an inmate escaped from the Okfuskee County jail through a wall and was missing for five days before the sheriff was notified.

Bobby J. Guidroz reported on Friday, an inmate at the St. Landry Parish Jail attempted suicide by using part of the metal ceiling tiles within the cell, which have been rusted and damaged. “We are grateful that no life-threatening injuries occurred, much in part of the Suicide Watch Plan operating as planned,” said Guidroz.

Wilde spent two years at the jail after being convicted of gross indecency - effectively for being gay. After he was released in May 1897, he spent the last three years of his life in exile in France, where he composed his final work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, describing an execution at the prison.