Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office has released new details following an internal investigation into an inmate escape that ...

An effort to overturn a voter-approved ban on the use of leg-shackles and other equipment at Allegheny County Jail took a small step forward Tuesday — despite warnings from some officials that the ...

PITTSBURGH — Corrections officers at the Allegheny County Jail are pushing to bring back the use of leg shackles during hospital visits. The restraints were banned as part of a ballot referendum in ...

Allegheny County Jail corrections officers may be allowed to use leg shackles when taking incarcerated people to medical appointments if county council approves a measure repealing a portion of the ...

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.

ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. — The Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office has released new details following an internal investigation into an inmate escape that happened late last year. According to the sheriff’s ...