Nine defendants were on trial on charges related to the July 4 attack on the Prairieland ICE detention center in North Texas.

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.

Ivanna Ortiz was arrested on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. after she allegedly fired several shots with an AR-style rifle at the singer’s home.

Glenn Brooks, a home remodeling contractor and a 'deeply religious man,' argued he has the right to try to fully exonerate himself.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – At The New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe in 1980 was one of the most violent prison riots in U.S. history. Resulting in 33 deaths and many more injuries, this riot ...

A convicted Sacramento child molester who was set to be released under California's elder parole law now faces new charges stemming from an alleged child sexual assault that happened in Roseville in ...

CDCR officials are investigating the death of John Cisneros at California State Prison, Sacramento, as a suspected homicide. Cisneros was found unresponsive in his cell on Feb. 23; despite life-saving ...

A manhunt is underway in western Mexico after at least 23 inmates escaped during a riot at a prison in Puerto Vallarta following the killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, nicknamed “El Mencho,” the ...

David Allen Funston was convicted in 1999 in Sacramento County of 16 counts of kidnapping and child molestation. According to prosecutors who handled the case, Funston would approach children playing ...

The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office recommended closing the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad to help California reduce its corrections spending. Andrew Kuhn [email protected] ...