
County jails on the hook as state stops paying prisoner costs
County jails haven’t received payments in months, and there are still four months left in the July-to-June fiscal year.
County jails haven’t received payments in months, and there are still four months left in the July-to-June fiscal year.
Combs, 54, was sent to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Tuesday — a place that’s been described as “hell on earth” and an “ongoing tragedy” — after pleading not guilty in a case that accuses him of physically and sexually abusing women for more than a decade.
An inmate who alleges jail officers took photos of her genitals and threatened to tase her without provocation is suing those officers and the Henry County sheriff for constitutional violations.
The developer that plans to revamp a pair of former correctional facilities on Indianapolis’ near-east side for housing, retail and entertainment uses has modified its vision for the project due to structural issues with one of the buildings.
Some states, including Indiana, automatically restore voting rights upon release from incarceration. But that doesn’t mean everyone with a felony conviction understands that their voting rights have been restored upon release.
A murder suspect who was mistakenly released two weeks ago from jail in Indianapolis was captured Wednesday by the U.S. Marshals Service in Minnesota, where he faces charges in a 2021 killing, police said.
A federal magistrate judge has granted local defendants’ motion to stay discovery in a case involving noncitizen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the Clay County Jail while a motion to dismiss is pending.
A scowling Donald Trump posed for a mug shot Thursday as he surrendered inside a jail on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, creating a historic and humbling visual underscoring the former president’s legal troubles.
A Moscow court ruled Thursday that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich must stay in jail on espionage charges until the end of November, Russian state news agency Tass reported.
Federal and local defendants in a case involving noncitizen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the Clay County Jail are again asking a federal court to dismiss claims.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has filed a lawsuit against the Howard County Jail, claiming its policy of limiting what books incarcerated individuals can be sent is unconstitutional.
A 26-year-old man has been released after being misidentified as the person who walked into a northwestern Indiana jail, poured an accelerant on the floor and started a small fire, court records say.
A man walked into a northwestern Indiana jail on Monday, poured an accelerant on the floor and lit it, starting a small fire that was quickly extinguished, a sheriff said.
A man with a history of mental illness died after 20 days locked away, naked, in a windowless, isolation cell at a southern Indiana jail, where he lost nearly 45 pounds and didn’t receive necessary care, a federal lawsuit alleges.
Noncitizen detainees who allege the Clay County Jail is using U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding to operate as a “cash cow” can proceed with part of their lawsuit, a federal judge has ruled.
An attempt by county commissioners to regulate e-cigarette and nicotine use in the local jail went too far, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed.
A white correctional officer in southwestern Indiana who is seen in body camera footage punching a Black inmate during a struggle has been fired.
Officials in Hamilton County have launched a program aimed at providing a career pathway for individuals in the Hamilton County Jail.
A Bedford Republican wants to change who has the right to bail in Indiana — and it will mean editing the state’s Constitution to make it happen.
A western Indiana jail inmate faces felony charges for allegedly attacking and trying to choke a correctional officer in his jail cell, police said.