CHICAGO — For many of these men and women behind bars, Christmas can be the loneliest day of the year. But on Thursday, churches and organizations in Chicago brought the spirit of the season directly ...

The Butler County Jail will be featured on a new Discovery Channel series giving an "unfiltered look inside America's toughest jails." ...

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A film crew followed sheriff’s deputy inside regional correctional facility for new docuseries ...

The Butler County Jail will be featured in '120 Hours Behind Bars,' a docuseries airing Monday on The Discovery Channel.

Twenty people died in 2025 in the Harris County Jail, the state’s largest pre-trial detention system, which has faced years of understaffing, overcrowding and wrongful death lawsuits. The death toll ...

Why is Bruce Kelly in jail? Explore his charges, convictions, and full legal history, detailing the events that led to his ...

Rising premiums and expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies are pricing some people out of healthcare coverage. That comes as Illinois replaces healthcare.gov with Get Covered Illinois as the state's ...

Chicago and Cook County saw another steep decline in fatal opioid overdoses last year, records show, four years after a recent peak in such cases during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2025 ...