Sheriff Gerald Sticker says the new $250,000 X-ray scanner is part of a security overhaul in his first year on the job.

A comprehensive five-year study by the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC), covering fiscal years 2019 through 2023, provides the most detailed look yet at the persistent challenge of contraband within ...

For the second time since last September, Tangipahoa Parish authorities made a sweep of the parish's jail and seized drugs, ...

AMITE — Drugs, weapons and various other types of contraband have been uncovered in a multi-agency shakedown effort at the Tangipahoa Parish Jail that is expected to lead to multiple arrests.

A new USSC report awkwardly doesn't include synthetic cannabinoids, despite the so-called epidemic of these substances ...

The TPSO officials said they recovered drugs, makeshift weapons and other prohibited items, such as cellphones. The jail sweep had reportedly been planned for weeks as part of the TPSO’s new ...

Raymond Minaya, 29, is facing a longer sentence in part due to a sharpened metal rod and cell phones found stashed in his ...

United States Border Patrol agents recently uncovered and disabled a large-scale nearly 3,000-foot-long narcotics smuggling ...

The tunnel was just over half a mile long and extended more than 1,000 feet into U.S. territory, border officials said.

Minaya’s lawyer described the shank as protection after a particularly violent period at the notorious Sunset Park jail, but ...

U.S. Border Patrol agents found an uncompleted drug smuggling tunnel linking San Diego and Tijuana in early April, the agency said in a press release on Wednesday.