The bill would have created a state council to monitor jail conditions. It failed to progress last month amid opposition from ...

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar and his team face mounting criticism about the jail. During a tour, they showed how they're working to make fixes.

Following an emotional hearing, Berks County judge hands down a three- to 10-year sentence for 29-year-old Moshe Notis ...

Nathaniel Morton, left, stands with his lawyer, Mark J. Fonte, at the defense table during Morton's arraignment in state ...

Ontario Court Justice Joseph Callaghan's decision puts criminal proceedings on hold while Kauldhar receives anti-psychotic ...

A federal judge’s finding that extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutional could lead to the state being ordered to ...

Three children freed from a cellar in which their mother had been imprisoned and raped by her own father for 24 years had never seen daylight, police in Austria have confirmed. Police spokesman Franz ...

Right now, 60-year-old Rex Heuermann is sitting in a 60 square foot prison cell in Long Island, not far from where the bodies ...

Two years following his hotly debated murder conviction in 1913, Leo Frank was the victim of Georgia’s most notorious ...

Adriana Valdez discusses the inspiration behind the Secret Mall Apartment, a project she undertook in 2003 to protest unsustainable development in Providence, Rhode Island.

A Gering man convicted of causing the death of a 1-year-old boy will serve a lengthy prison sentence ... that boy’s mother had been asleep in a basement bedroom in the home during the events ...

The Washington School House Hotel occupies a limestone building that once served as one of Utah’s oldest schools. Now ...