Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced the sentencing of Ameen Hurst, a 19-year-old man who escaped prison last year after being involved in four separate homicides.

South Carolina restarted its death chamber this year after an unintended 13-year break in executions in part because ...

A new docuseries challenges half a century's worth of received wisdom about the influential social psychology study ...

"All the people in prison that I know want to work. We just want to do it on our own terms," writes Steve Brooks.

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Massachusetts Air National Guard member to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty ...

A man convicted of breaking into numerous cars on Old Dominion University’s campus was sentenced to more than a year in ...

The number of people in New Zealand’s prisons is higher than 10,000 for the first time in more than four years. It comes ...

Most children jailed in the Northern Territory are Aboriginal, and the new government is reducing the age that can happen.

Four years after rejecting a proposal to sell $15 billion in bonds to pay for new school buildings, California voters appear ...

A jury convicted Alam last year of 10 counts, including a felony charge ... “Sometimes you have to break the rules to do what ...

We’re tracking decisions for statewide measures spanning from rent control and minimum wage to gay marriage are on the Nov. 5 ...