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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Tennessee lawmakers are advancing a bill strictly limiting the shackling of pregnant inmates. The bill would generally prohibit restraints of a pregnant inmate. More ...

Police in Manchester said an inmate was captured Thursday after he escaped the Valley Street Jail earlier in the morning.Click to watch News 9's coverage.Manchester police said witnesses saw Kevin ...

Dave Sprout, a paralegal at the Lewisburg Prison Project, and D. Toni Byrd, an assistant federal public defender and board member for the project, work on behalf of Lewisburg inmates. On Feb. 3, 2011, ...

A 25-year-old Orleans Parish inmate who was on the lam for about 24 hours used a "metal object" to break the shackle chain attached to his ankle and then made his escape when the deputy on duty left ...

A Rockdale County detainee who managed to elude custody during a hospital visit in Atlanta last month was left without handcuffs after a procedure, a lapse officials said helped enable his escape.

WHEN PATTON GOT OUT OF THE VAN, , HE RAN AWAY. >> HE HAD HANDCUFFS AND SHACKLES ON. SOMEHOW HE WAS ABLE TO GET OUT OF THE HANDCUFFS AND SHACKLES. CA ROLYN: IT WASN’T SIMPLE. >> THEY’RE NOT DESIGNED TO ...

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI)– A federal prison bus crash temporarily shut down Interstate 64 near Scott Air Force Base Sunday morning. The crash happened around 4:50am near Route 158. The prisoners were ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Ten days after an inmate from the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office simply walked away from a security line at Municipal Court, 38 year old Lionel C. Trumble is back behind bars.