One of this year’s Sundance premieres is a story that draws from real life and aims to truthfully portray the realities of ...

Lisa Ferraro of Paterson admitted writing bogus prescriptions for 90 pills each to patients she didn’t examine, then took 30 each for herself.

The investigative minds at How to Survive examine environmental stress, psychology, and survival dynamics inside the world’s most dangerous prisons. Unity wins out as Republicans swallow $643M in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four ...

OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. – The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office is asking a judge to allow additional review and consider upholding life without parole sentences for 16 people convicted of crimes ...

UTICA, N.Y. -- A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage was sentenced Friday to 25 years to ...

UTICA, N.Y. — A former prison guard in Oneida County was sentenced to prison Friday morning for his involvement in the death of inmate and Greece native Robert Brooks. News10NBC’s affiliate in ...

A jury found him guilty of killing his wife, 39-year-old Ana Walshe. Brian Walshe was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a Massachusetts jury found him ...

A 23-year-old inmate at Jessup Correctional Institution died Saturday under suspicious circumstances, officials said. Deon Sheridan Smith Jr., who faced life in prison for felony murder, had been at ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - A Broward jury decided to give a convicted police killer life in prison without parole after deliberating for just a few hours on Monday. Twenty-two-year-old Jason ...

A man was sentenced to life in prison for stabbing a 67-year-old grandmother to death on a Metro train in Los Angeles. Elliot Tramel Nowden, 47, was found guilty by a jury of first-degree murder in ...

SAN DIEGO — A man convicted in the kidnapping and killing of an 18-year-old U.S. citizen in Tijuana was sentenced in San Diego federal court Wednesday to life in prison. Brian Alexis Patron Lopez, 24, ...