A Brazilian national living in Connecticut was sentenced to federal prison for helping to obtain over 1,000 fraudulent driver ...

Authorities say Poitra had connections to the Devils Lake area. He is currently in custody at the Lake Region Correctional ...

An Oklahoma prisoner who came within seconds of execution was found unconscious in his cell only hours after learning he ...

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to working ...

YOUNGSTOWN A former Youngstown resident was sentenced on Thursday to 40 years in prison for distributing fentanyl that led to ...

Two defendants were sentenced Thursday in Ontario County for a murder-for-hire scheme hatched while one of them was already behind bars for a violent rape. Judge Richard Healy sharply condemned the ...

Recent court escapes in South Africa have raised concerns about custodial management. In response, authorities are ...

John Skelton, whose three sons vanished around Thanksgiving 2010, has been charged with murder just weeks before his ...

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An Oklahoma man who admitted to conspiring to kill a Nebraska teenager 56 years ago gets out of prison this weekend.

A major data update from a prison watchdog group is pulling back the curtain on how New York runs its state prisons — and where it’s falling short. The Correctional Association of New York just ...