As Donald Trump prepares to make good on his promise to deport possibly millions of undocumented immigrants, the private prison industry appears poised to cash in.

Judge faces backlash for sentencing an admitted rapist to probation The 20-year-old defendant pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting four teenage women, and the judge called prison time ...

A Missouri prison nurse who fatally poisoned her husband after falling in love with a convicted killer learned this week she’ll be spending the next 12 years behind bars.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A former doctor was sentenced to two years in prison after bilking Medicaid for $1.5 million. Robert Florea, 49, was sentenced this week after being convicted in October ...

The notorious director of a brutal Iranian jail escaped just before airstrikes, after Israeli sources contacted his son with a warning: have your father open the prison doors, or he will be targeted.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A man who spent almost 27 years in prison is now using his second chance to make sure Louisville kids never need one.

A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 dead bodies in a decrepit building and sent grieving families fake ashes received the maximum 20 years in prison Friday, for cheating customers ...

Funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decaying bodies sentenced to 20 years in prison Jon Hallford will be sentenced in August in a separate state case in which he pleaded guilty to 191 counts ...

Wladimir Vera Villamizar, a 33-year-old welder, had a whole lung removed — an uncommon procedure that requires months of intensively managed recovery, according to doctors.

Blogs under former Anaheim mayor’s name appear while he’s in prison Mayor Harry Sidhu addresses visitors to Anaheim’s State of the City Luncheon at City National Grove of Anaheim, CA, on ...

The second-to-last of 10 escapees from a New Orleans jailbreak last month has been recaptured after six weeks on the run, authorities said Friday.

A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 dead bodies in a decrepit building and sent grieving families fake ashes received the maximum possible sentence of 20 years in prison on Friday.