It was here, he said, that Nelson Mandela ... fell, the prison was turned into the Robben Island Museum. The most powerful part of the tour is a visit to Mandela’s cell, a 7-by-9-foot room ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A deputy is accused of notifying inmates at the Monroe County Jail before cell searches took place. He’s the second deputy charged as part of an ongoing internal investigation.

The mother of Tiahleigh Palmer. (AAP Image/Darren England) Thorburn had previously been found unresponsive in his jail cell, most recently in 2022 when he was rushed to Princess Alexandra Hospital.

Chad Mackenzie, 36, was found unresponsive in a jail cell shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday, the sheriff’s office said in a news release Friday.

For 175 years, prisoners were locked up behind these thick sandstone walls. Today, the jail cell has been converted into a “cosy study space”. There is a narrow single bed where you can ...

The Fort Bend County District Attorney's Office is investigating the death of an inmate at the county jail. Tamion Kenon, 34, was alone in his cell when he died April 3, according to the district ...

At Staten Island Academy, which is an independent private school on Todt Hill, cell phones are allowed during the school day. Yet cell phone use in the classroom is limited, at the discretion of ...

An inmate was found seriously injured in his cell at the Larimer County Jail on Monday night, according to the sheriff's office. The man was the only inmate in the cell. The 8th Judicial District ...

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called Rikers Island a “death camp” Monday even as she admitted the troubled jail complex can’t shutter by 2027 — but still refused to say whether she ...

New York City is allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to return to its Rikers Island prison following recent demands placed on Mayor Eric Adams by the Trump administration.

Federal immigration enforcers are welcome back to the New York City jail complex on Rikers Island — after a decade in exile under the city’s sanctuary-city laws — according to a mayoral ...