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Texas DPS has caught Dante Odom, a 52-year-old on the Most Wanted Sex Offender list, after a citizen's tip in Houston.

A detention officer who was accused of having sexual intercourse with a Montgomery County Jail inmate and giving her a vape ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Corey Shawn Bavousett is the name of the inmate who died this past Sunday at the Bill Clements unit outside of Amarillo. A custodial death report filed with the Office of the ...

Texas and Alabama have executed death row inmates within minutes of each other, one for killing a 13-month-old baby during an "exorcism" and the other for shooting a mother of two in the head during a ...

:Inmate Beaux Jones has been apprehended after walking away from a facility.ORIGINAL:The Rogers County Sheriff's Office has issued a warning to the publi ...

Tasha Grant, 39, died in May at MetroHealth after being physically restrained. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner ruled her death a homicide.

An Auglaize County Correctional Center inmate is dead. According to Auglaize County Sheriff Miccheal Vorhees, Corrections staff were performing their routine head count ...

One escaped inmate from the Brown County Jail has been captured, but another remains at large and is believed to have been "contained in a large wooded area" in northern Kentucky.Deputies said Roy ...

Kentucky State Police say that Oliver was located off Crooked Creek Road in the Reed community and arrested on Wednesday ...

A Bradford County inmate has been sentenced to serve time in state prison after he was found guilty of molesting a child ...