The fatal overdose of a homeless man at a Sacramento County jail is one of multiple deaths in which staff have been accused ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since ...

The General Services Administration, working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, has notified landlords ...

Alabama has set an April execution date for a man who dropped his appeals and asked to be put to death for the 2010 rape and ...

Three internet domains have been seized and ten individuals arrested in a scheme to smuggle drugs into prisons, according to ...

A lawsuit against Sean Combs, known as “Diddy,” accuses Maui Police Chief John Pelletier of posing as a sheriff to cover up a ...

The Democratic-led legislature's efforts to shield immigrants from the Trump administration's aggressive deportation efforts, ...

Law firms pursuing sexual abuse suits against large institutions like the Boy Scouts, the Catholic Church, and a federal ...

Assemblymember Damon Connolly and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins have announced a bill intended to improve safety at state prisons. Assembly Bill 1140 would require the California ...

Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, over 20 percent of the world's prisoners ...

A man who was given a chance to avoid prison after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an underage Burkburnett child is ...

George Joseph Wellinger II, 49, pleaded guilty March 11 to interstate threatening communication, with the special finding ...