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 ...

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

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

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

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

Inside the tunnel were makeshift barricades and at its end point in the Nueva ... It's not the first time agents have ...

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.

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 ...

An incomplete but “highly sophisticated” drug-smuggling tunnel between Tijuana and San Diego was located and disabled by the U.S. Border Patrol, officials said.

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.

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Deputies and detention officers conducted a raid Thursday inside the main jail in northwest Atlanta and uncovered a contraband operation at the jail annex in Union City.