Both strategic and commercial motives guided the British government’s choice of New South Wales as a convict colony.

This is the book that should never have been needed. Until quite recently it was taken for granted that Australia was a ...

Our convict forebears could as easily have been hanged for horse stealing as transported for poaching a salmon from a rich ...

Another problem with this scenario is that KDOC and state law have set a goal for community corrections of a 75% success rate ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — The man who was charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a Florida golf course last year tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen shortly after being found guilty ...

An Arizona jury has convicted a man accused of killing eight people during a shooting spree in the metro Phoenix area in 2017 Phoenix -- An Arizona man was convicted Thursday on eight murder charges ...

Phoenix (AP) — An Arizona man was convicted Thursday on eight murder charges for a string of fatal shootings that targeted random victims and his own mother and stepfather over a three-week span. The ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A Cuyahoga County jury Thursday rejected a Cleveland woman’s claims that she shot and killed her casual romantic partner in self-defense. Manija Downey, 30, was convicted of two ...