A federal judge this week sentenced a 43-year-old Spokane man to 12 years in prison after police found more than 20,000 fentanyl-laced pills and other drugs in his car two years ago at Northern Quest ...

An investigation into the death of an inmate last November at the Miami Correctional Facility, located north of Kokomo, has resulted in charges being filed against nine other inmates.

OLYMPIA — Washington farm groups are lobbying against legislation that threatens to imprison people for environmental violations such as manure running off fields into water. A person already can ...

A Detroit man charged in connection with two assaults last year in Washington, D.C. has been sentenced to 60 months in prison with 12 months suspended, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Jerome ...

GIG HARBOR, Wash. — In December, more than 340 women at the Washington Corrections Center for Women participated in an incentive-based fundraiser, raising over $1,780 for Feisty Felines. The women ...

This month marks the 10-year anniversary of Jason Rezaian’s release from imprisonment in Iran. In 2014, Rezaian — then The Washington Post’s Tehran bureau chief — was arrested with his wife at their ...

When WA's prison watchdog first inspected the state's oldest operating prison in 2001, it warned conditions were "well below national standards". 25 years on and little has changed at Broome Regional ...

Jimmy Trammell was killed in a prison riot just three days before his scheduled release after ten years. A gang-related sidewalk fight left three inmates dead, 13 hospitalized, and forced an emergency ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. — A man was found dead at Washington State Prison two days before three inmates were found dead, deputy coroner Mark Hodges confirmed. Hodges said that, on Friday at 7:15 a.m., ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. — The Washington County Sheriff has released the identities of two out of the three inmates dead after "several major fights" at Washington State Prison on Sunday. On Monday, ...