By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, Dec 3 (Reuters) - A California doctor was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison on Wednesday for ...

Dr. Salvador Plasencia was the first to be sentenced of five defendants who pled guilty in connection with Perry’s death.

The news of the attack comes after a guard was "viciously attacked" at Cheshire Correctional Institution in August. In that ...

Steve McBee Sr. reveals to PEOPLE the final meal he'll eat before he has to self-report to prison on Dec. 1 to begin serving ...

The McBee Dynasty's Steve McBee Sr. also revealed who's taking care of his dog and home in his absence.

In October he ‘McBee Dynasty’ patriarch was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $4 million in restitution in ...

Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, has been held for 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Hong Kong — and ...

For nearly a year and a half, Andrea Weiskircher has been pleading with prison officials, state leaders and law enforcement to look at the evidence.

Many group homes, or "halfway houses," for people who have just been released from prison or drug treatment have closed in recent years, though Dismas House, in Burlington, is still welcoming new ...

One of the co-conspirators of a massive political corruption case involving the theft of campaign funds pleaded guilty ...

The University of Utah last week launched the first national center for prison education research after receiving an $8 ...