Cuban political prisoner Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara spoke exclusively to USA TODAY days after being freed from a Cuban jail ...

A Lake County judge on Wednesday sentenced Cortez Morehead to 24 years in prison after he admitted confining a woman in a Gary apartment and causing the death of her four-month-old fetus. The attack ...

Joey Lee, 50, will be released on 10-year conditional probation following a 90-day stay in Beltrami County Jail, as his eight ...

A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative contends that involuntary commitment is increasingly functioning as a ...

A federal judge sentenced a City landlord to 13 months in prison followed by eight months in home confinement for bribing a ...

Another man held in New York state prison has died in a violent incident, the third such death in five days, police said.

Mancini has already served six months home confinement. He'll also be on probation up to five years and has been orderd to forfeit his firearms.

Denied treatment and locked in a four-by-four cell, the only mercy that reached me came from a ventilation duct. It was ...

What is the purpose of prison? Punishment, certainly, but do you have an expectation that our prisons are rehabilitating the ...

County sheriffs and jail administrators say growing jail populations are outpacing space and staffing, forcing jails to ...

Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman changed the crocodile classification from a previous designation as wild animals. The move could allow the dangerous reptiles to be deployed for security ...

Reba Wilson pleaded guilty to criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon and intimidation. Three other charges ...