Days before an end was announced to the prison strikes at more than 30 facilities across New York state, more violence was reported inside a maximum-security correctional location north of New York ...

Assemblymember Damon Connolly and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins have announced a bill intended to improve ...

Local governments and insurers paid over $60 million to resolve and defend hundreds of jail-related claims in the last five ...

A former custodian at Pickerington Local Schools pleaded guilty to voyeurism charges Thursday and was given a jail sentence.  Prosecutors said Edward Dorst, 64, of Baltimore, Ohio, hid a cell phone ...

Khalid Mehdiyev admitted to trying to kill journalist Masih Alinejad. Now he’s testifying against the men he says put him up to it.

"I saw a similarity in Angeli's life and the systems that have been failing the community for years before the shooting," ...

Deputies arrived to find the man on the floor of the cell after the apparent attack, the Sheriff’s Office said.

A man who killed his family in Seminole County is now part of a new investigation into a murder-for-hire plot in Las Vegas.

A former principal of an elementary school in Waterbury claimed that school officials raised several concerns about the boy around 2005 and contacted DCF numerous times.

Ray Vogelman’s death was one of three on the board’s March agenda that have prompted lawsuits but at first no findings of ...

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been given a month to declare whether it will contest Peter Sullivan's appeal against ...