GOSHEN, Ind. — A former booking specialist at the Elkhart County Jail has turned herself in after an investigation revealed she stole over $27,000 from former inmates’ secure Trust Fund accounts.

The proposed changes come after scrutiny of the amounts in some inmates accounts, particularly inmates with notoriety. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and Department of Justice (DOJ) are ...

An inmate is accused of selling drugs to inmates in Harris County Jail as his 2 family members laundered nearly $30,000 to his commissary account, Texas cops say. Getty Images/iStockphoto An elaborate ...

Federal prosecutors are continuing to push for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s entire inmate trust account, which has more than $4,000, to be turned over and applied toward his ...

Earlier this month, when Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux said he would spend $1.6 million in profits made off inmates to fund air conditioning at his jail facilities, the announcement shined a ...

Screven County Sheriff's Office launches new kiosk and online system for families to deposit commissary funds for inmates.

A glitch in the Hopkins County Jail’s commissary system allowed inmates to receive credits on their account every time they ordered baby powder. According to the county’s jailer, one inmate was able ...

Inmates selected to participate in a Netflix series filmed in the Pulaski County jail received doubled visitation time and payments to their commissary accounts totaling $75, with the money coming ...

It’s something York County officials are debating. County officials conducted a poll and of the people they asked — 80% were all for giving money to the victims. York County prison started a separate ...