Earcy Tucker is retiring from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office a decade after the sheriff's office helped build him a ...

Harvey Jacobs, 54, was found unresponsive in his bunk at the Jefferson County Detention Facility shortly after 8:30 a.m.

Jefferson County has more jails per capita than any other county in the U.S. Twenty jails. TWENTY. That’s not a typo. To put this in perspective, New York City with nearly 15 times our population ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tennessee — A Jefferson County inmate is dead after deputies found him unresponsive early Sunday morning, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. At around 12:17 a.m., ...

JEFFERSON, Wis. -- The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office was searching Friday for a woman who they said did not return to the jail after her work shift. Georgette Asmussen, a Huber inmate, did not ...