"There's so many other steps that have to come after this for some action to really ... make us believe that it's true," a former prisoner said.

Wisconsin's second-oldest prison, built in the 1800s and long targeted for closure, would finally be shuttered under a new plan from Gov. Tony Evers that proposes sweeping changes to the state's ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Illinois judicial campaigns have become very expensive, with interest groups and wealthy donors throwing around lots of cash to get their favorite judge on the bench.

The man appointed by the Canadian government to help stop fentanyl from entering the United States says his goal is to ...

Now, almost three decades after his arrest, a judge will decide whether to release Robert Johnson later this month.

A court in Stockholm on Tuesday convicted a Swedish woman of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crimes committed in Syria in 2015 against women and children of the Yazidi religious ...

Erick vividly remembers stepping off a plane at the Texas-Mexico border, shackled, when he was deported in 2013. The group he was with was marched single-file across the border to Matamoros, Mexico, ...

Tia Brewer, 22, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for her role in the 2018 murder of Luis Guerrero. Brewer pleaded guilty ...

A woman accused of participating in the brutal murder of a man in West Chicago in 2018 will spend four decades in prison. Following a four-day-long sentencing hearing, 22-year-old Tia Brewer ...

A DuPage County judge sentenced Tia Brewer, a former Wheaton resident, to 40 years in prison for her involvement in the 2018 murder of 18-year-old Luis ... pit located on Joliet Street, where ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers completed their work Tuesday to reduce the state’s individual income tax rate, delivering on a top Republican priority on just the fifth day of this year's ...