...also faces a probation violation. Lawson, of Old Petersburg Road in Martinez, was transferred to the Augusta-Richmond County Detention Center for an order to show cause warrant for possible probation violation, according to Columbia County sheriff's...

This year, a Richmond County grand jury recommended that the sheriff's office consolidate its jail facilities in one location instead of two.

...Thursday was sales pitch day in the Augusta Commission's chamber for Augusta's public library, the Augusta-Richmond County Detention Center on Phinizy Road and the city's technology department. Officials from all three hoped to be included...

...telephone, and we're hoping for a full recovery," said sheriff's Capt. Chester Huffman, of the Augusta-Richmond County Detention Center, where the wounded deputy worked in transportation before his deployment about three months ago...

An Augusta Commission committee voted Monday to rename the Augusta-Richmond County Detention Center in honor of former sheriff Charles B. Webster. Commissioners Jimmy Smith and Don Grantham asked the public safety committee to...

...see that it does not happen." With the Richmond County jail on Walton Way in need of repairs and the Augusta-Richmond County Detention Center on Phinizy Road having inmates sleeping on cell floors, two additional pods to the Phinizy Road jail...

...positions for the 2002 budget later this year, filling slots at both jails - the county also operates the Augusta-Richmond County Detention Center on Phinizy Road - will be the first priority. "If a major fight broke out in the jail, I don't...

There were no flowers, cards or candy at the Augusta-Richmond County Detention Center on Mother's Day. They're not allowed for security reasons. And there were no children there to visit their mothers. The...

...shakedowns have been done for years at the Law Enforcement Center downtown on Walton Way and at the Augusta-Richmond County Detention Center since it opened two years ago on Phinizy Road, officials have stepped up searches since sheriff's...

...comparisons should not be made to the Augusta-Richmond County Detention Center completed in 1997, which housed 556...144 Richmond County Completed the Augusta-Richmond County Detention Center in November 1997 Estimated cost: $16...