When you think of a prison town, you probably think of a place like Huntsville, Texas. Or maybe Forrest City, Ark. Or Susanville, Calif. Even if you don’t know them by name, you know the type: places ...

In Houston’s jail, where the population is at its highest in a decade, 24 people have died this year. More than half had a history of mental problems. Dallas Garcia, the mother of an inmate killed in ...

A report from the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals new information about the more than 663,000 people held in custody in local jails across the country as of the first six ...