Nebraska lawmakers gave first-round approval Thursday to a proposal that would eliminate the state's current ban that ...

Prolific shoplifter Jennifer Gordon has more than 150 dishonesty convictions. She was sentenced to two years and six months ...

A few more details are known about South Carolina's firing squad as the state prepares to carry out its second execution by that method.

A 26-year-old Lincoln man is appealing the 15- to 20-year prison sentence he got last week for shooting at his ...

Many NYU students know Greenwich Village as the heart of New York City’s LGBTQ+ community, but might not recognize the role ...

Extreme heat at a Miami-area prison without air conditioning has subjected prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment, ...

Cell phone signal jammers could help reduce crime coordinated from behind bars. But prisoner advocates say other solutions would be better.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is “plainly unconstitutional,” but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air ...

Frequently, hip-hop artists have found themselves on the wrong side of the law and are locked up in jail or have to serve a lengthy prison bid. XXL looks at over two dozen rappers who are in jail ...

He has served seven of them already. “Mr. An is in my opinion, on balance, a very fine man and accordingly, seeing him return to prison for even one additional day is heartbreaking,” his lawyer, ...

SINGAPORE - About 400 singles have taken up tenancy at a new public rental housing site, where low-income singles can live in their own rooms and have access to shared facilities such as toilets ...

He led me to a room, took my belongings from my hands ... Roughly 50 of us were crammed into a prison bus for the next five hours, packed together – women in the front, men in the back ...