An inmate awaiting trial on a charge of rape of a minor escaped the Morgan County jail through a window on Sunday. Jeremy Taylor, of Hartselle, crawled out a single paned window at the jail ...

Less than two weeks after a Morgan County Jail inmate escaped and was recaptured, the Sheriff’s Office has received approval to install an electronic security system to keep track of inmates ...

The Morgan County Jail has received a $50,000 grant to support its addiction treatment programs. A former inmate, now clean and sober, nominated the jail for the grant through the Attorney General ...

A jail inmate threatened to shoot a Morgan County judge in the head and burn his house down on Thursday and now, in addition to prior charges, faces a charge of making a terroristic threat and ...

Two corrections officers were injured during an attack by an inmate at the Morgan County Jail on Saturday, April 5. According to the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office, the inmate, Earl Eugene Bates ...

Mar. 1—While inmates once filled the cells of the former Morgan County Jail, the cells are now filled with important courthouse records — records that will be better protected after the Morgan ...

MORGAN CO., Ala. (WAFF) - A Morgan County Jail inmate attacked two correction officers with a “shank” on Saturday, officials say. Earl Eugene Bates Jr. was arrested and charged with murder in ...

A female inmate was found unresponsive at the Morgan County jail Sunday morning, and was pronounced dead at the facility, according to a news release. The inmate, whose name was not released ...