It's more costly to house inmates at higher security levels, but the Michigan Corrections Organization says the system needs ...

Jacksonville hires CGL to guide one-year search for site to build new county jail. Town halls will let public voice opinions on options.

Chadwick Willacy is scheduled to be executed on April 21 for the 1990 murder of his neighbor, Marlys Sather. Willacy was ...

The Sheriff in Nancy’s disappearance is facing backlash. The post Why Nancy Guthrie Sheriff Is Being Sued for Over $1 Million appeared first on Reality Tea.

The man who opened fire in a classroom at Virginia’s Old Dominion University completed a drug treatment program that allowed ...

A North Texas man faced execution on Wednesday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son nearly 13 years ago. Cedric Ricks was sentenced to death for the May 2013 ...

The latest Legislative session is set to come to a close this week, though lawmakers have already filed hundreds of bills for consideration. But of these hundreds of bills, only a portion have ...

Federal prosecutors, who can face discipline for not advancing the Trump administration’s priorities, are bringing military trespassing charges against immigrants with little evidence.

A Florida man convicted of abducting, raping and murdering a young mother is set to be executed. Fifty-four-year-old Michael Lee King is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m.

Ariah Rivera, 22, of Hobart, was charged Tuesday with three counts of sexual misconduct and one misdemeanor count of trafficking with an inmate.

Medicaid is now paying for health care in jails and prisons, helping smooth inmates’ return to the community. Corrections and law enforcement officials say they’re all for it.

A Palestinian woman from Passaic County was freed Monday from an immigration detention center in Texas after a year in ...