California parole board approves release of convicted sex offender despite prosecutor concerns about incomplete treatment programs for sexual violence.

Carmen Mejia, a Honduran immigrant who was sentenced to life in prison for the 2003 scalding death of an infant in her care, was formally declared innocent in an Austin courtroom on Monday. “I’m now ...

Matthew Vukmer, the man accused of fatally stabbing a woman inside his Hillsborough home Friday morning, is behind bars in Grayson County, Va., where he’s waiting for an extradition hearing.

A House subcommittee debated new legislation to improve bank data sharing and slow down transactions to thwart sophisticated financial scams.

Colorado lawmakers are considering whether to carve a new path out of prison for some inmates who have served at least two ...

For the first time, we are hearing directly from the two men who were found not guilty of a Sussex County police officer’s 1998 murder, yet still sentenced to life in prison.

Nick Reiner, who is behind bars on charges of killing his parents brutally, has had no other visitor in the last three months.

Prosecutors say a robbery suspect admitted targeting his victim because he is elderly and has a possible mental disability.

Are we going to turn every bartender into a drug-recognition expert?” asks state Rep. David Rutigliano, R-Trumbull.

The Federal High Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State capital, has restrained the All Progressives Congress (APC) from ...

A Manhattan woman taken into custody by ICE officers in December is now believed to be deported after she failed to appear for a scheduled hearing in Manhattan Municipal Court ...