Escambia County Jail

Sandra Averhart reports on efforts to improve conditions in the old part of the Escambia County Jail, while looking to relocate inmates being housed in the 1981 building.

Escambia County is slowly moving inmates out of its 41-year-old jail and looks to hire a security consultant to help develop short-term and long-term solutions.

Almost seven years after the 2014 explosion that destroyed the Escambia Central Booking and Detention facility, the county’s new Correctional Facility…

In an updated release Thursday evening, Escambia County Corrections is now reporting more than 5 dozen recently confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the county…

Escambia County Administrator Jack Brown says the county faces a number of challenges in 2017 -- some holdovers from previous years, and others specific…

Escambia County officials are working on ways to prevent any increase in the number of inmate deaths at the county jail and to find and alleviate the…

After hearing from the public, the Escambia County Commission Thursday took another step towards building a new jail facility.The Commission voted 4-1 on…

The Escambia County Commission is instructing staff to move ahead in hiring a design firm to develop plans for a new county jail.The commissioners’ wish…

One year ago, as the western Panhandle was dealing with torrential rain and flooding, a ruptured gas line dropped another disaster into Escambia County’s…

Escambia County officials are gearing up for battle, over part of the insurance on the Central Booking Facility, which was damaged by an explosion one…