In August 2011, Mark Nunez typed out a lawsuit against the city, a year after a team of jail officers on Rikers Island beat him with a radio, dragged him down a hallway and stripped him naked. In an ...

Michigan’s prison system has been in a perpetual staffing crisis for years as the state has been struggling to bring in and ...

Erin Patterson was found guilty Monday of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives by deliberately serving them ...

A man was sentenced to over a year in prison after pleading guilty to burglarizing and vandalizing an auto body shop in ...

A federal district judge in Massachusetts, Judge Brian Murphy, sought to prevent deportation of violent criminals but was ...

Tahriq Thompson, 34, was killed on June 29, when a bullet tore into his right arm near Riverdale Ave. and Osborn St. in ...

A man was sentenced to six months in prison after being convicted to a second-offense carrying of a concealed firearm.

By his own admission, Edgar Veytia ordered killings and torture and facilitated drug smuggling while he was governor of a ...

Brian Koehn, a Marine Corps veteran and former warden, is leading a movement to transform the criminal justice system with ...

A state lawmaker wants to triple the rate local jails are paid to house inmates who are waiting to be transferred to a state ...

James Strong was released on parole in October 2023 after serving nearly 16 years for killing 17-year-old Ricky Anthony Williams in 2007.