Fred Singleton died of natural causes this week after spending over 40 years on South Carolina's death row for the 1982 rape ...

Former House Speaker Michael Madigan reported to a low-security federal prison camp in West Virginia on Monday to begin serving his 7½ -year sentence on corruption charges, an ignominious end for a ...

A down-ballot race for New Orleans clerk of criminal court has turned personal and contentious, as candidate Calvin Duncan ...

Alabama is preparing to execute a man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery. Geoffrey Todd West, 50, ...

William Arnold ‘Billy’ Armendariz III is ‘worth saving,’ his attorney told jurors in arguing for life in prison. The ...

Woodfork, the former interim New Orleans Police superintendent, bested five other candidates to become the next sheriff of Orleans Parish with 53% of the vote. She defeated current Sheriff Susan ...

U.S. District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff, known for his stone-faced demeanor on the bench, will preside over the case against former FBI director James B. Comey.

Will Berry was 11 when his mother was killed. Thirty-three-year-old Margaret Parrish Berry was shot in the back of the head during a robbery at the gas station where she worked.

Over 100 prisoners were improperly moved to general population. Administration was required to reply nine months ago, an ...

A prosecutor told a jury that three former upstate New York prison guards on trial in the fatal beating of Black handcuffed ...

A person already in prison has been sentenced to 80 years in federal custody after authorities said the inmate built two bombs while behind bars and mailed them to a federal courthouse in Anchorage, ...