A Justice Department memo is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and ...

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 ...

Prosecutors are looking at potential connections to a former resident, who faces a murder charge in another case.

Elijah Thomas faces prison for a Feb. 2 stabbing that his wife says occurred hours after she alerted them about an earlier attack.

A Yancey County man will spend at least 25 years in prison for opening fire on several tree service workers and four deputies ...

President Donald Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, on Dec. 1, claiming without ...

A Pope County man who pleaded guilty in federal court earlier this year to stalking was sentenced to spend 10 years in prison, a jointly recommended sentence that exceeded the maximum recommended ...

Jasveen Sangha, a North Hollywood drug dealer known as “Ketamine Queen,” pleaded guilty in September to supplying the Friends actor with the drugs. She faces a maximum sentence of 65 years in federal ...

Laws to help “criminalized survivors” who fight back against their abusers often merely reduce their prison time.

Greg Campbell, a well-known California lobbyist and former top aide to several state legislative leaders, pleaded guilty ...

A former Idaho inmate says her reports of staff sexual abuse were dismissed for years, prompting renewed scrutiny of IDOC’s ...

The theft of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre in October had many people mispronouncing the name of the world’s ...