A federal judge in downtown Los Angeles said Monday she will sentence disgraced former legal heavyweight Tom Girardi — who ...

A federal judge in downtown Los Angeles said Monday she will sentence disgraced former legal heavyweight Tom Girardi — who ...

Most criminal justice reform conversations at the Capitol focused on making the reintegration process easier as a strategy to reduce recidivism.

Grant Hardin's escape from the North Central Unit and the ensuing manhunt for the fugitive have placed a national spotlight ...

Officials in Oklahoma say a work crew of inmates cut through downed trees to clear the way for a woman and her three children ...

Attorneys for George John Hanson, a death row inmate convicted of killing two people in 1999, recently filed a lawsuit claiming that a May 7 clemency hearing violated Hanson’s rights and requested a ...

"The only way out of there if you're a prisoner, is a body bag," said NBC Chicago’s Chuck Goudie on a recent episode of "The Takeaway with Alex." ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — A House budget committee on Monday voted to move forward with spending $312 million to purchase a private prison in Lawton that the state uses to house about 2,300 inmates.

Seven of the 10 escaped inmates have been captured after they were discovered missing from the Orleans Justice Center hours after pulling a sliding cell door off its track while a guard was ...

BOULDER, Mont. — The Department of Corrections says on Monday it moved 50 female inmates from the Montana Women's Prison to the former Riverside Special Needs Unit in Boulder. Officials say the ...

Ten inmates, including four accused of murder, slipped out of a New Orleans jail early Friday morning and managed to stay under the radar for over seven hours. Their escape, now captured on ...

Oklahoma lawmakers are considering a ... announced last year it would not renew its contract. The prison houses around 2,300 inmates, and officials say the loss of the facility could lead to ...