Correctional Facilities

Inmates can open some jail cells (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

13 May 2008

When Jefferson Parish Deputy Michael Tisdale was attacked in March by five inmates who had opened their own jail cells, it uncovered a problem that authorities acknowledge: Inmates can let themselves out of their cells in the oldest part of the lockup.

Fleeing inmates captured near Boynton (Muskogee Phoenix)

13 May 2008

Two escapees from Jess Dunn Correctional Center in Taft were free just a little more than 12 hours when captured at 9:10 a.m. Monday in a field near Boynton.

Cook County Jail unveils space where kids can visit moms (Chicago Tribune)

12 May 2008

Children can visit their incarcerated mothers Behind the barbed wire of the Cook County Jail, a cozy new room promises some brief comfort to mothers separated from their children during jail sentences for nonviolent crimes.