WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- A man who escaped from a New Jersey county jail was taken into custody Wednesday in Mexico City.

ELIZABETH, N.J., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton said he'd been asked to broker the surrender of New Jersey prison fugitive Otis Blunt.

NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A New Jersey jail guard, distraught after being sarcastically thanked by two escaped convicts, has committed suicide.

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ELIZABETH, N.J., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A pair of New Jersey jail inmates used pictures of bikini-clad women to hide holes they used to escape from their cells, prosecutors said.

ELIZABETH, N.J., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A manhunt was under way Sunday for two men who escaped from the Union County Jail in Elizabeth, N.J., Saturday evening.