The couple was sentenced to prison time for stealing a deceased family member's Social Security and retirement benefits while his body lay upstairs in a mummified state.

For some reason, in a flurry of last-minute clemencies earlier this month, President Joe Biden let the man with a kid’s blood on his hands out of prison when he commuted Peeler’s federal drug sentence ...

KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A Kansas couple was sentenced to prison for illegally taking proceeds from a relative’s Social Security ...

Under current law, 16- and 17-year-olds can marry with parental consent. A bill sponsored by Sen. Tracy McCreery would ...

Sun-Times reporters answer questions surrounding current and former immigration enforcement in the city and around the country.

Oklahoma lawmakers filed dozens of criminal justice bills ahead of the Jan. 16 deadline, including ambitious proposals to establish a full-time Pardon and Parole Board and institute a death penalty ...

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez faces the possibility of a long prison term when he is sentenced Wednesday for selling his once ...

A woman behind bars solicited other inmates to kill her family and promised them a cut of her $2 million inheritance, Florida authorities said. Tureygua Inaru, 31, was sentenced t ...

A Black jail inmate who was dragged backward across a concrete floor by a rope attached to his handcuffed wrists is suing a Washington state sheriff’s office.

Sam Antwan Ivey left his workplace and was captured outside his child’s elementary school with the gun used in the 2023 ...

Harvey Weinstein begged a judge Wednesday to hold his #MeToo retrial as soon as possible, telling him “I don’t know how much ...

The state of Alabama urged a federal judge Tuesday to allow the nation’s fourth execution with nitrogen gas to proceed next ...