R. Kelly's attorneys file an emergency motion seeking home detention, alleging that prison officials are scheming with racist inmates to have the singer killed.

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now.

SAN FRANCISCO – A former state correctional officer pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of wire fraud in connection with a plot to plant contraband he then pretended to discover, prosecutors said.

The former correctional officer hid weapons and drugs including cocaine and methamphetamine, federal prosecutors say.

New footage shows the exact moment Todd Chrisley and his daughter Savannah Chrisley reunited after he spent more than two years in prison. The video, obtained by TMZ, shows the father and daughter hugging each other immediately after his release from prison.

A new programme using a form of horse therapy is attempting to tackle the trauma that is thought to lie behind the high rates of arrest and imprisonment among US veterans.

A Madison student was attacked in September 2023 in what prosecutors described as one of the most brutal assaults in recent memory.

The following is a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office (Idaho). BOISE – Leon Jason Fortner, 57, of Boise, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison for bank robbery, Acting U.S. Attorney Justin Whatcott announced.

A former prison officer at a high-security jail where a member of staff was recently stabbed by an inmate, has said the "floodgates" have been opened on the use of drones to smuggle in weapons and drugs.

The lawyer used her attorney status to smuggle the drug to an inmate with whom she had a personal relationship.