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Inmates at a St. Louis jail set fires, caused flooding, broke out fourth-floor windows and tossed a stationary bike, chairs, mattresses and other things

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a public records request Monday seeking information regarding a surge of COVID-19 cases in San Diego County jail facilities, which it alleges are overcrowded and in need of an urgent inmate population reduction in order to stem the spread of the virus.

A 26-year-old inmate who was found hanging in his San Diego jail cell died by suicide, authorities reported Monday.

Prosecutors say President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer was returned to prison because he refused to sign an agreement describing terms of his home confinement, not because he planned to publish a book critical of Trump

Prosecutors say President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer was returned to prison because he refused to sign an agreement describing terms of his home confinement, not because he planned to publish a book critical of Trump.

A former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputy accused of shooting and killing a mentally ill man who had escaped custody outside the downtown jail in May has been charged with second-degree murder, the San Diego District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday.

The former deputy resigned following the shooting after 18 months with the sheriff’s department.

NBC 7 has learned the San Diego County Sheriff’s deputy that opened fire on a mentally ill man who escaped custody last week is no longer with the department. In a statement, a spokesman for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department told NBC 7 that Deputy Aaron Russell tendered his resignation on Wednesday, May 6, five days after the deadly…

Nicholas Bils was running away when a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed him last week, reports NBC Investigates’ Alexis Rivas.

Three days after a deputy fatally shot a man running away from state park rangers outside the county jail downtown, police are keeping an unusually tight lid on the investigation.

A mother wants answers after her son was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy on Friday. NBC 7 Investigates reporter Alexis Rivas has more.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department was expected to release approximately 400 inmates without bail by Thursday in order to comply with a state order to reduce prison populations in an effort to minimize the spread of COVID-19.

Health experts say prisons and jails are considered a potential epicenter for America’s coronavirus pandemic.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says officials are reviewing 200 inmates that could be released from New York City’s Rikers Island due to the spread of COVID-19. The announcement comes one day after officials revealed that more than three dozen inmates and employees had tested positive on Rikers Island. De Blasio said 23 inmates over 50 years old and at “low…

Some low-level, non-violent inmates facing trials and being held in San Diego County jails are being considered for release in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, the county’s district attorney and sheriff announced Saturday. “In the wake of an unprecedented Superior Court closure, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office and San Diego County Sheriff’s Department took several proactive...

Coronavirus has become a “get out of jail” card for hundreds of low-level inmates across the country

A 24-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail for posting on social media a video last August of himself removing an ice cream container from a Texas market freezer, licking the contents and returning the container to the freezer. D’Adrien Anderson, 24, also was sentenced to an additional six-month jail term probated for two years and ordered…

A lawsuit filed by prosecutors in the Virgin Islands says multimillionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein used two private islands in the U.S. territory to engage in a nearly two-decade conspiracy to traffic and abuse girls. At one point, the suit filed Wednesday alleges, Epstein and associates organized a search party to catch a 15-year-old victim trying to swim away,...

An inmate in solitary confinement at a California jail was refusing to leave his cell. The jailers’ usual response: Send an “extraction team” of corrections officers to burst into the cell and drag him out. But not in Contra Costa County, one of three in the state using a kinder, gentler approach in response to inmate lawsuits, a policy change…

Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz has been upgraded to “good” condition as he continues to recover from his shooting last week in the Dominican Republic, according to his wife. “This morning, David’s condition was upgraded to ‘good’ by his doctors and he continues to make progress with his recovery in the Intensive Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital,” Tiffany...