Jeffrey Wilkins has been in prison 16 of the last 19 years. He said he was stuck in a cycle. Wilkins said he previously put ...

A Butler County Prison inmate accused of stabbing a man to death was found with two metal shanks, according to Butler County ...

Starting this summer, Butler County judges will no longer send some felony offenders to prison, so officials are applying for a $1.2 million grant to help pay for dealing with the scofflaws locally. A ...

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones has reopened the Court Street Jail in Hamilton to house more contract inmates and felony five offenders that judges can no longer send to prison. A new state law ...

People showed up to protest the Butler County Jail's contract with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The federal government will soon pay the Butler County jail even more money to house ICE detainees.Earlier this year, the Butler County Jail restarted it's federal contract with the Department of ...

The man serving time for the death of Katelyn Markham is asking a judge to let him out of prison early and Butler County’s prosecutor is responding.Katelyn Markham disappeared from her Fairfield ...

Butler County jail officials say it’s hard to know how many people in the jail are developmentally disabled or suffer from mental health issues, as they aren’t required to keep that statistic; but ...