Kentucky judge demands to know why jail officials sent a female inmate to her courtroom without proper attire. The woman was wearing the shorts and T-shirt that she was arrested in days earlier.

NEW YORK (AP) — A malfunctioning damper diverted heat to the top level of a two-tier observation unit where a city official told The Associated Press a mentally ill, homeless veteran inmate “basically baked to death” in a cell that was at least 100 degrees last month, the head of New York City’s jails system […]