The Georgia Department of Corrections appointed Jennifer Clark as the new warden of Long Unit, effective June 1, 2025.

Grant Hardin, the former police chief of the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, who became known as 'Devil in the Ozarks', was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape.

Washington County deputies say Maurice Stewart, 19, faces a number of charges including two counts of possession with intent ...

A former police chief in Arkansas who is serving decades-long sentences for murder and rape escaped from prison Sunday, state ...

A new section of Port Augusta Prison had barriers constructed at a width that prisoners could slip through. The public service union said the design flaw could have allowed prisoners unauthorised ...

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia man was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty ... Williams, of the Domestic Violence Unit, who prosecuted this case on behalf of the State.

WOODSTOCK, Ga. — A man who pulled a weapon on his girlfriend when she tried to leave and prompted a standoff with officers will serve a decades-long sentence. William Scott Kirk II, 35 ...

A new law passed by the Georgia Legislature ... walked out of prison the same day. Woolfolk was exonerated and released a month later. Stinchcomb praised the Fulton Integrity Unit and District ...

The Georgia legislation tries to protect survivors from long prison sentences by making changes to three key moments in a criminal case: the trial, sentencing and post-conviction. It will make it ...

ATLANTA — As state legislators work to craft complex and costly plans to fix Georgia’s troubled prison system ... they usually don’t last long: The consultants found that between January ...

A man accused of stealing his mother’s life savings will serve 10 years in prison, Georgia prosecutors said ... of the Special Victims Unit, Office of the District Attorney, said in the release.