David Leonardo, 39, was originally sentenced to 15 years to life for killing Priscilla Rose Hernandez in 2011.

The cruelty of Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act plays out over and over again as state seizes inmate assets.

Authorities in Congo say 600 prisoners in the country's main prison have been freed as part of a process aimed at ...

Four men who were among the first rioters to assault police officers and the first to breach a security perimeter during the ...

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The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in ...

Malik Johnston defied repeated calls for his resignation from the Flemington Borough Council and his term on the governing ...

Amber Higdon left the 3-week-old puppies trapped in a plastic tote on the side or a road on a day when temps reached 95 ...

A sheriff who participated in the infamous manhunt for escaped inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat in 2015 compared it to ...

Former "Jackass" star Bam Margera is back in prison after he allegedly violated his probation, court documents on Thursday ...

"Mr. Hayes has done a lot of soul searching and wants to fully move away from the person that he used to be," his attorney ...

State corrections officials have launched a homicide investigation after a convicted killer from Alameda County died ...