The introduction of contraband into a prison causes significant “fallout,” a federal judge said at sentencing.

Authorities say nine prisoners at a Georgia prison were treated for stab and cut wounds after suspected gang-related violence broke out.

Christopher Alan Parsons, who prosecutors allege is a member of the Crips criminal street gang, pleaded guilty to an enhanced ...

A man "lost his head" and ended up in prison after a visit to a pole dancing club. Lee Blowes attacked a security guard with a glass after allegedly sexually assaulting a worker.

The president-elect avoided punishment for his 34 felony convictions, highlighting how the legal system often treats the ...

The Reform UK leader said that ‘instinctively’ it is not something he would want to do but he is ‘now thoughtful’ about the ...

A Hardee County grandmother is scheduled to go on trial Monday for leaving her 7-month-old granddaughter in a hot car where the baby died.

Mel Gibson's home in Malibu was destroyed by the Los Angeles wildfires while he was away recording a podcast, the actor said.

The prison population has been creeping back upward. New laws in some states instituting harsher punishments threaten to further fill prisons, many of which are already understaffed and overcrowded.