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.

Concerns are mounting over prisoner transport protocols in California following two recent inmate escapes. In December 2024, Cesar Hernandez escaped custody by jumping from a moving van en route to a ...

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 ...

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 ...