A newly created state program next year will begin notifying residents when a jail or prison break has taken place in the ...

"Honest, hardworking, hard-charging and not one to suffer fools easily. "Tough, contentious, funny, loving, faithful, compassionate." Those were the words Brooke Karnes Carnevale said have been used ...

Inside Franklin County's James A. Karnes Corrections Center on Columbus' West Side, 35 men, all veterans of the U.S. military, sat at tables while a county sheriff's deputy told them about their ...

The Franklin County Justice Center campus at 1016 N. 4th Ave. includes the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, Superior Court, Municipal Court and county administrative offices. A long-simmering feud ...

A Franklin County corrections officer was arrested after allegedly giving an inmate information about a shooting at a Pasco ...

The family of a man who died in the Franklin County jail in 2022 while he was supposed to be under medical supervision has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county in federal court. Thomas D.

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Mo. — A man died in custody Saturday morning inside a holding cell at the Franklin County Adult Detention Center. The Franklin County Sheriff's Office identified the man as Donald ...

Franklin County is preparing to launch a jail-based mental health treatment program that local officials say could ease ...

On May 8, 1966, Franklin County jail inmates revolted against the conditions in the jail. Called the “Mother’s Day Riot” in The Columbus Dispatch, inmates smashed about fifty windows, ripped out two ...

The Franklin County House of Correction in Greenfield was the first in the state and among the first in the country to provide methadone in-house for its clients in an effort to subdue their addiction ...