A former Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy found guilty of second-degree murder for shooting Sonya Massey has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, the maximum allowed under law.

It was November 2023, in a staff break room at South Idaho Correctional Institution, when prison guard Blas Covarrubias ...

Oklahoma County taxpayers will pay $350,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit by the estate of a man who died in the county ...

Charles Victor Thompson was executed for the 1998 murders of his ex-girlfriend Glenda Dennise Hayslip and her new boyfriend ...

F.B.I. agents searched a Fulton County, Ga., election center for ballots from 2020, escalating an investigation of a heavily Democratic jurisdiction the president has criticized over his defeat.

Lorain County Auditor Craig Snodgrass is worried a fake website, which looks very legitimate, is going to fool and steal ...

Injustice Watch reported last year that Leonard Dixon, who ran the Cook County juvenile detention center for a decade, owned property and voted in Michigan.

A 26-year-old Carson City man was booked Monday for 281 counts of alleged violation of a domestic violence temporary ...

Missouri has 19 adult prisons and there are facilities that had double the snow that fell at Algoa or Moberly. Madison ...

Advocates and incarcerated people say prisoners were ordered outside during a winter storm and punished with segregation or discipline if they refused ...

The state parole board freed 185 prisoners during Landry’s tenure, compared with 858 in the two years before he took office. Hundreds who would have been released under previous governors remain ...