Atlanta businessman Calvin Darden Jr., a career fraudster with previous convictions, is facing 12 years in prison for his latest scam, convincing former NBA player Dwight Howard to part with $7 ...

President Donald Trump keeps talking about sending U.S. citizens who commit violent crimes to prison in El Salvador ...

California leads the nation by leaps by bounds as the state that most often declined requests to detain illegal migrants arrested for criminal charges, according to newly released data. More than half ...

For years, families have complained of cruelty from the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) when their incarcerated loved ones ...

April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file) GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — The U.S. government’s decision to arrest a Maryland ...

A former New York City Fire Department chief has been sentenced to nearly two years in federal prison after admitting he accepted thousands of dollars in bribes to expedite safety inspections.

ATLANTA (AP) — Mary Favors is still plagued by nightmares from the days her husband beat her, choked her and verbally and sexually abused her. Now, she is in prison for killing him. Their ...

BOISE – Hector Aguirre, 28, of Caldwell, was sentenced to 7 years in federal prison for unlawful possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney ...

have been filed this session that would require state prisons to be equipped with air conditioning, but none of the bills have received a hearing yet. “This is a federal judge saying Texas is ...

Milton was sentenced in December 2023 to four years in federal prison but was free on bail while appealing the verdict, the Business Journal previously reported. During a news conference Friday ...

After years of controversy about the temperatures inside Texas prisons, a federal judge has ruled the sweltering conditions in some facilities as unconstitutional. At least 4 deaths reported after ...

Prison staff and inmates move through the Darrington Unit's main hallway on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Credit: Jolie McCullough/The Texas Tribune ...