UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — 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 ...

A recent National Academy of Sciences report criticized traditional ways of measuring success after individuals are released from prison that are entrenched in identifying failure by relying solely on ...

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 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 ...

The 59-year-old man who killed a Houston attorney who intervened as he berated McDonald’s workers over a botched double Filet-O-Fish order was sentenced Thursday to life in prison. The punishment by ...

Last Christmas, Officer Andrew Lansing was brutally murdered by an inmate at the Ross Correctional Institution in Chillicothe, Ohio. It was a tragedy that shook the state and renewed urgent ...

Officer Jovian Motley died under mysterious circumstances in November 2023. The family of a Texas corrections officer is still seeking answers after his death in what was supposed to be a routine ...

Anthony Landry, 59, was sentenced to life in prison on Dec. 11 for the May 2024 murder of Jeffrey Limmer, 46, in Houston Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...