The Texas Democrat has used his perch in Congress to highlight sympathetic cases in his push to free detainees and call ...

A conversation with Paul Bocanegra is awash in cognitive dissonance. How, I wonder, could the congenial middle-aged man sitting across from me at a coffee shop, apologizing profusely for being a few ...

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

The incident happened around 10:15 a.m. March 9 inside a cell block at the prison, also known as New Folsom. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said Jon C. Blaylock, 56, ...

California correctional officials are investigating the death of a Monterey County convict at Pelican Bay State Prison as a homicide.

Monterey County inmate Gabriel Otero was found dead at Pelican Bay; investigators are probing an apparent homicide.

A correctional officer was injured Monday morning in an alleged attack by an incarcerated person at California State Prison, Sacramento, according to the California Department of Corrections and ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who spent 43 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned — only to be taken straight into immigration custody — was denied bail Tuesday while he ...

A convicted child molester had new charges filed against him by the Placer County District Attorney's Office as he was set to be released on parole on Thursday.

ST. LOUIS — A court fight in a case that freed a Missouri man could now change how innocence claims are handled in court. It involves Christopher Dunn’s 2024 release from prison, which the Missouri ...

ATHENS, Greece — A new penal code issued by decree in Afghanistan sets harsher punishments for the mistreatment of animals than for domestic violence against women and solidifies into law inequality ...

An El Paso man was sentenced to 70 years in prison for fatally hitting another man with his car during a bar fight. Rene Martinez, 34, was found guilty of murder in the death of 23-year-old Juan ...