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

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.

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.

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

Mohammad Rasoulof on the logistical challenges of making The Seed of the Sacred Fig, the Academy Award–shortlisted film that ...

The man who showed up armed to a Washington, D.C., pizzeria after falling for a debunked conspiracy involving allegations of ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WFFT) — A Fort Wayne man has received a federal prison sentence for attempting to distribute fentanyl. The ...

Horton was convicted for allegedly orchestrating multiple schemes that defrauded her employer of more than $1 million.

Judge Juan Merchan imposed an "unconditional discharge” that means Trump receives no prison time or probation. Trump continues to appeal conviction.

President-elect Donald Trump received an unconditional discharge for his criminal conviction, meaning he will get a criminal ...

Prosecutors say former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez should be imprisoned for 15 years, after the Democrat from New Jersey became ...

A Goldsboro man convicted of drug trafficking last August is charged in the murder of an informant in 2021, federal ...