Two inmates facing charges that include murder escaped from a Georgia jail Sunday night. Ricky Martin, 20, and Kentravious Holmes, 21, were detained at the Sumter County Jail in Americus, Georgia, ...

Georgia death row inmate Stacey Humphreys has selected his final meal ahead of a scheduled Sept. 16 execution for the 2003 killings of two Cobb County real estate agents.

An investigation into contraband at a Georgia jail has ended with two former jailers and two inmates facing charges, the GBI ...

Five DeKalb County Jail inmates are facing murder charges after another inmate was killed last month.

A inmate in one of Georgia's prisons has died after contracting tuberculosis. The Georgia Department of Corrections confirmed that an inmate entered custody at the McRae Women's (Diagnostic) Facility ...

The resignation came after Georgia’s Prosecutor General’s Office recommended the Justice Ministry suspend Giorgi Pataridze in ...

An inmate in Georgia was seriously injured in a jail altercation and later died at a trauma center. The sheriff has asked the GBI to investigate.

The bombs were mailed from a state prison to the Department of Justice and a federal court. The inmate tried to exchange information on the plot for accommodations, prosecutors said in court filings.

A routine facility check at a county jail just east of Atlanta on Monday morning suddenly turned into a manhunt after officials discovered three men, all accused of violent crimes, had escaped the ...

A Georgia judge halted the scheduled execution of convicted murderer Stacey Humphreys, ruling that he is entitled to a hearing under a new state law that allows certain inmates who suffered abuse to ...