The Shelby County Detention Center is continuing to search for an inmate who escaped the prison Tuesday afternoon.

A Shelby County Jail inmate was pronounced dead Friday morning. According to Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, Phillip Ledford, ...

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office said 55-year-old Phillip Randall Ledford, of Pelham, was arrested on February 21, 2025.

COLUMBIANA – A investigation is now underway after the death of an inmate at the Shelby County Jail on Friday March 7. On Friday, Feb. 21, Phillip Randall Ledford, age 55 of Pelham, was arrested by ...

Four inmates died at the Shelby County Jail, commonly called 201 Poplar, within a week in February. Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner, who advocates for a new jail, allowed journalists to tour the ...

The mother of Ramon McGhee, a Shelby County Jail inmate who died malnourished and covered in bed bugs, has filed a lawsuit against the county and its jail healthcare provider, Wellpath. The lawsuit ...

THE SHELBY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THAT AN INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY INTO THE DEATH OF AN INMATE. THIS MORNING, DEPUTIES ...

The Shelby County Detention Center is continuing to search for an inmate who escaped from the prison Tuesday. Jail officials said Wednesday morning that Tyler Tipton, 32, of Bagdad, escaped from ...

Authorities say Sheriff John Samaniego has requested an autopsy and for the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office to conduct an ...

Shelby County sheriff’s Lt. Debbie Sumrall said he was assessed by on-site medical staff at the time of his booking and housed in the jail’s medical unit. About 7:16 a.m. Friday, jail deputies and ...