Overcrowding at the Boone County Jail is costing the county, with officials now housing more inmates in out-of-county facilities than in the jail itself. According to Cpt. Brian Leer with the Boone ...

Jail officials say they're sending about 75 inmates to jails in other counties each day. Boone County Jail is currently over capacity. Officials say as of Wednesday, January 22, the jail had 289 ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LEBANON, Ind. — A Boone County Sheriff’s ...

BELVIDERE — The In-2-Work program at the Boone County Jail allows detainees to leave with food service training once they finish their sentence. The In-2-Work program is made possible through Aramark, ...

A Boone County jailer has been charged after officials said he gave preferential treatment to inmates for performing sexual acts.According to the Boone County Sheriff's Office, Trenton Westfall, 28, ...

A new report from the Iowa ombudsman accuses two jails of using restraint chairs to confine inmates for long periods, sometimes for punishment. The Iowa Office of Ombudsman investigated four inmate ...

A man who was charged with rape earlier this year and was arrested in St. Louis last month is now in the Boone County Jail. Antonio Bates, 58, was charged in June with first-degree rape. He was ...

Four people were involved in an early morning car chase on Monday in Columbia. The Boone County Sheriff's Office observed a vehicle that was reported stolen traveling north on Rangeline Street near ...

The Boone County Jail is currently over capacity. Officials the jail had 289 inmates on its books on Wednesday — and it's paying for 75 of them to be housed in other counties. The jail was built in ...