Richmond Police and Richmond Fire responded to reports of a brush fire on the 1700 Block Fairfield Way near the city jail.

The election may struggle to gain attention in the midst of Virginia’s busy statewide campaign season, but it will likely become a referendum on Sheriff Antionette Irving.

Richmond's public defenders are speaking out after they say conditions inside the Richmond City Justice Center are causing attorneys to wait hours in the lobby to visit with their clients.

Archaeologists excavated the jail had to cope with groundwater that filled trenches as fast as they were dug. C. David M Doody / Courtesy Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Locking up with Richmond ... Then he traded badges, following legendary homicide investigator C.T. Woody to the city jail when Woody was elected sheriff in 2005.