Michelle Carter was charged and convicted in the "suicide-by-text" death of her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III. Here is everything ...

A proposed New Jersey law that would mandate life imprisonment without parole for anyone convicted of murdering a child under the age of 16 has not ...

A man who formerly resided in Danbury has been sentenced to a year in prison for submitting over $1.3 million in fraudulent ...

A man who killed a bouncer at a Boston nightclub nearly 20 years ago will remain behind bars after the parole board sided ...

In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and ...

Mary Prince met President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter 54 years ago as a wrongly convicted murderer. She talks about becoming a beloved nanny, caregiver and member of the family.

History rarely announces itself. It creeps in quietly, cloaked in the language of “law and order,” “national security,” and “patriotism.” But every now and then, it screams. Last week, it screamed.

The FCC has postponed rules that would have lowered the cost of prison and jail phone calls for at least two more years, ...

Despite still holding the same beliefs as when the Massachusetts woman murdered her own mother, a psychologist believes she ...

Louisiana has been repeatedly accused of holding inmates past their release date. State officials say the problem has been ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas filed the lawsuit in federal court on behalf of Gregory Holt, also known as Abdul Maalik Muhammad, claiming the transfer violated his constitutional ...

Three sites used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by ...