An inmate was mistakenly released from a North Carolina detention center after court data was entered incorrectly into the department's system, the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office said Saturday.

This story has been updated with the company responsible for the inmate database stating that while names of real inmates were released, the health information listed was fictitious. Electronic ...

Dozens and perhaps hundreds of individuals who applied to visit inmates at Everglades Correctional Institution (ECI) in Miami-Dade County last weekend had their personal contact information shared ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois’ decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are servin… ...