Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has taken another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled on the maximum ...

GEO Group contested its property tax value on an idle Michigan prison last year. It's now gearing up to reopen the prison as ...

A Marshall Project review found dozens of allegations of nurses standing by when New York prison guards beat and injure inmates.

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” ...

Archer Roebuck has recently achieved a major milestone at Andrea Royer’s Studio – his 500th music lesson.

Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna bring the bleakest and best Star Wars story (and it isn’t close) to an extraordinary end.

Pope Francis talks about gays saying he wouldn't judge priests for their sexual orientation in a remarkably open and ...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A court in Tunisia has sentenced leading opposition figures to between 13 and 66 years in prison in the climax of a major trial accusing 40 people of conspiring against ...

BLOEMFONTEIN - Five years after his arrest for corruption, former Free State premier Ace Magashule finally has his day in court. The R250-million asbestos trial is underway in the Free State High ...

(FOX40.COM) — A 47-year-old man from Sacramento was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in prison on Thursday for the murder of a 16-month-old girl and the abuse of a 3-year-old boy, according ...

coli outbreak last year that spread across 15 states and infected 89 people, one of whom died. The outbreak was linked to romaine lettuce — with the first case being recorded in St. Louis County ...

A Connecticut man received more than 15 years in federal prison on a racketeering charge for his participation in a Bridgeport street gang. Jahaz Langston, also known as “Haz,” 25, of ...