Getting hitched behind bars can be an important step toward rehabilitation. But inmates should expect long waits, spare ...

A Georgia man was given two years in prison for his role in a romance scheme that stole thousands of dollars from elderly ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that the Department of Justice was suing the state of Maine for failing to ...

Four Russian journalists have been sentenced by a Moscow court to 5 1/2 years in prison each for their activities linked to the late opposition leader Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK ...

A man was convicted Wednesday of stabbing to death a transgender actor and model in her apartment in Georgia last year, a killing that shocked the South Caucasus nation and ...

U.S. Marshals have arrested a convicted murderer after he was mistakenly released from a Georgia jail, where he was serving a ...

The speed and scope of the federal government’s efforts to terminate the legal status of international students have stunned ...

Last year, the budget authorized up to five prison closures; the state closed two – Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Washington County and Sullivan Correctional Facility in Sullivan County.

After decades in law enforcement, Marshall took the helm in January 2023 of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which includes all of the state’s prisons, jails and ...

Georgia’s highest court is weighing in on a fight over special protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee ...

A convicted killer who was accidentally released from a Georgia ... State, where they collaborated with local officials to locate Guzman. Guzman, who was only five months into his prison term ...

The head of West Virginia’s state corrections system, long plagued by overcrowding and inmate deaths, has been tapped to lead the agency that manages federal prisons beset by similar issues.