Everyone is safe, one officer sustained a minor injury and returned to duty,” the state Department of Corrections said.

The Shelby County Jail is aging, has failing infrastructure and is overcrowded. The sheriff's office allowed reporters inside ...

A concrete block bed and two inch mattress and blanket ... people are punished from the foot of a bed inside, not a real prison cell. >> This is an exact replica. Pretty much.

to the wooden boards with straw mattress on top of the Victorian Cell. The clothes here are genuine modern prison clothes marked "SYB" - Shrewsbury, B Block. When the Gaol closed in 1916 it was ...