Under current Oregon law, a person convicted of a "qualifying misdemeanor" involving a family or household member is ...

Some relatives of accused and deported gang members say their sons have been wrongly swept up in a Trump administration ...

A South Tyneside woman who assaulted a shop worker while drunk and “foaming at the mouth” has been given three months to ...

Construction of a new jail is moving to the forefront of City Hall's to-do list. A big question is what part of Jacksonville will be the site.

Joe Biggs is one of only 14 people in the entire country to face any lasting legal consequences for the Capitol attack, ...

Prisons spend a lot more money on keeping such prisoners in jail than the bail money required for their release — which they ...

Despite pushback from her parents, the man's teenage victim asked a judge to spare him from prison: 'Mr. Scionti is by no ...

A jail guard is recovering after he was stabbed in the neck over the weekend at a jail in Atlanta that is currently under a ...

The new immigration bill in India proposes up to seven years of imprisonment and a fine of up to Rs 10 lakh for using fake ...

A corrections officer and two inmates are charged in a plot to sneak fentanyl into a southeast Missouri prison.

The boss of Scotland’s largest prison has said he wants the jail being built to replace it to be similar to a Costa coffee shop. Michael Stoney, governor of Barlinnie in Glasgow, said the new ...