Mark Lee Potts, the mayor of Jefferson County, was sentenced to a year in jail but only has to serve 48 hours behind bars, ...

Missouri corrections officers drenched an inmate with pepper spray and ignored his pleas for help for four hours, responding ...

The first class of a career readiness program for future correctional officers received their certificates of completion ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Drug deaths are down nationally and in Jefferson County. CDC data shows about a 10% decline nationwide, meaning less people are overdosing. Locally, through Sept. 18, there ...

During the Greater Idaho Falls Police Foundation Law Enforcement Appreciation Luncheon, Bonneville County Sheriff Sam Hulse ...

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office arrested three men in connection with their alleged roles in the kidnapping and torture of a 45-year-old man inside a home shared by all four.

The County Board of Commissioners agreed Tuesday to provide $135,000 in funding to the County Sheriff's Department to help decrease overcrowding in the jail by having some inmates serve time in the ...

At 12:02 p.m. on Saturday, inmate William Rose, 64, was pronounced dead at the Capital Regional Medical Center in Jefferson ...

A Hueytown man is facing 35 years in prison after being found guilty of plotting to murder a federal prosecutor.

A federal jury in Birmingham has convicted a Jefferson County man in the plot to kill a federal prosecutor, which he ...

JEFFERSON CITY — Attorney Bevis Schock stood in the middle of the first-floor courtroom in Cole County and started reciting ...