MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Officers intentionally kept the conditions in a local Alabama jail “as filthy as possible” to convince county commissioners to increase salaries and jail budget ...

Former Walker County lieutenant Benjamin Shoemaker agreed last month to plead guilty to three federal counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law. He was the nineth worker at the jail ...

LE MARS — The Plymouth County Jail is a busy place, with dozens of inmates held there every day. That requires correctional officers — jailers — to oversee them, feed them and provide other services.

MONTGOMERY — Officers intentionally kept the conditions in an Alabama jail “as filthy as possible” to convince county commissioners to increase salaries and jail budget, a ploy that ...