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 ...

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez faces the possibility of a long prison term when he is sentenced Wednesday for selling his once-considerable clout in Washington for gold bars, a ...

It's time for the Green Bay Correctional Institution to close. There is no excuse for the conditions in which inmates live ...

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 ...

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

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.

Couple drew from father's Social Security, pension for years after the man's death while his body remained in the home.

There are 418 Missourians across the state on a waiting list for a mental health bed, up from around 300 at this time last ...

Court records said that Deion D. Crum was convicted of one count of Unlawful Use of a Weapon and one count of Armed Criminal Action. Due to his prior convictions, Crum could face a minimum of 20 ...

People languish for an average of 14 months in jail before receiving the mental health treatment that could allow them to ...

SEDGWICK COUNTY —A Kansas felon who left his 11-month-old daughter in the canal in Wichita is going back to prison. Judge ...