Construction is underway to give Gaston County’s overcrowded jail some relief. ... The roughly 160,000-square-foot jail and annex has been consistently overcrowded for more than a year. It’s not ...

Gaston County commissioners will not fund an ankle bracelet-monitoring program that Sheriff Alan Cloninger said would have alleviated overcrowding at the jail. Instead, commissioners voted unanimously ...

GASTON COUNTY, N.C. — Gaston County Sheriff Alan Cloninger hopes to fix overcrowding in the jail and said that it is a critical situation. Officials transferred more than 20 inmates to other ...

Gaston County jail officials say there are drugs hidden in mattresses, bars of soap, and anywhere else inmates can conceal them. GASTONIA, NC — If you think jail is a drug-free environment think ...