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A pair of corrections officers tasked with guarding Jeffrey Epstein’s cell the night he committed suicide have made a deal with prosecutors allowing them to avoid jail time.

A hostage situation on Saturday at the Oklahoma County Jail ended when authorities said police shot and killed an inmate who held a correctional officer hostage.

An inmate from a Georgia jail is on the run after reportedly escaping the Telfair County Jail yard on Friday afternoon.

Rodney Hargrove was shot to death by an as-yet unidentified person as he was waiting for his ride home on Thursday morning.

A Rikers Island inmate who was caught after attempting to escape last Thursday tried again Sunday and did not succeed.

The home and justice secretaries have drawn up plans to fast-track the judicial system so that Black Lives Matter vandals and violent far-left protesters can be jailed within 24 hours.

An inmate at an Indiana jail severed part of his finger and mailed it to a local newspaper to protest the conditions of that jail.

The infamous Blue Bell “ice cream licker” is going to jail for the crime he committed at a Walmart in Port Arthur, Texas, in August.

A suspect accused of beating his girlfriend in Harriman, New York, was released on an appearance ticket Tuesday. 

A man in Vero Beach, Florida, was sentenced to 90 days in jail Thursday for spitting on a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat in October. 

Model and left-wing activist Chrissy Teigen has warned that there “needs to be jail time” for President Donald Trump and the “whole” Trump family as Democrats in Congress continue to pursue impeachment proceedings against him.

A former neurosurgeon and accused child molester was found dead of an apparent suicide inside his cell in Santa Cruz, California, over the weekend. 

Sixteen female inmates have chosen to be baptized as part of a new program at the Blount County Jail in Oneonta, Alabama. 

Does the phrase “convicted felon” seem too harsh? A Calif. city board thinks so, and now they want people to say “justice-involved person.”

Shrieking and shouting was heard coming from Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell the morning he was found dead, reports said. 

Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig said Saturday that individuals “close” to Jeffrey Epstein — the accused child sex-trafficker and millionaire investor found dead in his New York City jail cell Saturday morning — have fears that he was murdered.

It was “inexcusable” that deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein was not kept under constant suicide watch in his cell, said Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) on Saturday morning.

An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking scheme named two prominent Democrats as part of a group of men with whom she was forced to have sex, unsealed documents revealed Friday.

Over 7,000 people have died in Venezuelan prisons since the socialist regime seized power in 1999, according to a study published Thursday by the Venezuelan Prison Observatory (OVP).

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) pledged Friday to ban both private prisons and immigration centers if elected president.

If you condemn Western civilization, suddenly those 68 imprisoned journalists aren’t all that important to a disgraced propaganda outlet like the Washington Post.

Two Democrats running for political office who are convicted of crimes may be celebrating their electoral victories behind bars should they win their elections.

There has been a 23 percent surge in drugs found in UK prisons in just one year, with the number of prisoners testing positive hitting a 12-year high.

TEL AVIV – A Jordanian journalist who spent time in an Israeli prison told a Saudi TV station that he was “ashamed” of the differences between prisons in the Arab world and those of Israel, in which prisoners are able to receive an education.

“What about Comey and Crooked Hillary and all of the others?” Trump wrote. “Very unfair!”

A Florida woman is in hot water with authorities after she allegedly called 911 under the guise of reporting a medical emergency to obtain beer.

The UK has set up two new ‘separation wings’ in prisons to isolate jihadists and other extremists and stop them spreading their murderous ideology.

TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Authority plans to continue paying the salaries of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, which includes convicted terrorists, according to Dr. Nabil Shath, a senior adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

A rising number of prisoners caught with extremist Islamist texts in UK jails is fuelling fears the prison system is becoming a hotbed of radicalisation.

An Egyptian immigrant, convicted paedophile, and serial rapist will have his jail term in the UK reduced because he is deaf and cannot hear the television in his cell or chat to other inmates.

A judge sentenced an Ohio millionaire known as the “Food Stamp Millionaire” to 30 days behind bars for welfare fraud.

The Department of Homeland Security wants to rent more space in jails in Chicago, Detroit, Minnesota, and Utah, to hold more illegal immigrants before their repatriation, according to a federal request to companies.

A Maine woman says she would rather risk jail time than take down her yard signs in support of President Trump after city officials said she had to remove them.

After serving nine years in jail for armed robbery, on Thursday O.J. Simpson was awarded a promise of parole by a Nevada parole board. But the decision doesn’t simply end O.J.’s obligations to the Nevada criminal justice system. Simpson still faces years of requirements, any violation of which could send him right back to prison.

A Chicago-area jail went on lockdown Sunday after more than 200 corrections officers called out sick for Mother’s Day, sheriffs said.

LONDON (AP) — An abusive British husband whose original sentence for assaulting his wife sparked outrage among domestic violence groups was jailed for 18 months on Friday after new information came to light from a county cricket team.