Dec. 18 is the first anniversary of California’s Proposition 36, which increased penalties for certain drug and theft crimes while promising more drug treatment but experts said what really happened ...

A Maryland prison inmate already serving a life sentence has admitted to killing his cellmate inside Jessup Correctional ...

A man was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for the 2020 shooting death of a Helena-West Helena police officer, according ...

The Arkansas Board of Corrections voted to approve a method for paying attorney Abtin Mehdizadegan, who they hired in 2023 to ...

Sentence lengths have generally increased since 2020. The 2023 Protect Arkansas Act, which reduced parole eligibility and ...

Rapper Kay Flock was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for a series of shootings in his Bronx neighborhood, derailing a music career that was just taking off before his 2021 ...

When the Arkansas Board of Corrections agreed to pay a private law firm $300,000 for work on two lawsuits over its ...

Latarius Quayshun Howard was found guilty of capital murder for the 2020 shooting death of Travis Wallace, a Helena-West ...

Devontea Clay, 26, was sentenced to 120 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections for the 2023 double murder of two ...

One man has been sentenced to 120 years after he was charged with second-degree murder in connection to the 2023 killings of ...

The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas says 32-year-old Marcus Abeyta pleaded guilty to one count of ...

The owner of a failed nursing home chain who was pardoned by President Donald Trump shouldn't have to serve his Arkansas ...