Us Jail News Today

Mr Kawuba used the investors’ money to run a Ponzi scheme

A prison in the US state of Minnesota was placed into lockdown on Sunday after dozens of inmates refused to return to their cells.

After breaking out of the facility, the convict made his way to a nearby residence, where he held three people hostage at gunpoint for hours.

A man found dead in an Atlanta jail covered in lice and feces was malnourished, dehydrated and hadn't been given his schizophrenia medicine for a month, a private coroner reported Monday.

A black man has been held in US jail without a trial and without representation for 10 years after being charged in connection to a double murder in Georgia.

Thompson’s shocking story reflects the extreme conditions at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, where horrific sanitary conditions are among other problems plaguing the prison.

A report from a county medical examiner's Office said there were no signs of physical injury on his body, but noted a "severe bed bug infestation.''

Two women prisoners in a New Jersey jail became pregnant after having sex with a trans inmate.

Sini Mathews, the Indian-American foster mother of three-year-old special needs girl Sherin Mathews who was found dead in a culvert in suburban Dallas in 2017, was freed from jail after 15 months as the child endangerment charges against her have been dropped in the US due to lack of evidence. The Dallas County District Attorneys Office said on Friday that there was not enough evidence to proceed, NBCDFW news reported.