Grandmother Donna Nelson sits alone in a Japanese jail for 23 hours a day, far from the life she planned with her online boyfriend of two years. The court accepted the 59-year-old was love scammed, ...

On April 4, prison officials and advocates say Inmate Ricky Wassenaar went on a methodical killing spree at the state prison ...

Most — if not the entirety — of Jamal Thomas’ remaining days will be spent behind bars, an Alameda County Superior Court ...

San Diego County jails have one of the highest rates of inmate deaths among county jails in California, the state auditor ...

As hundreds of migrants crowded into the Krome Detention Center in Miami on the edge of the Florida Everglades, a palpable ...

Lucy Garzón risked everything to keep her children safe, then ended up losing a son to the very country she hoped would ...

USA TODAY's initial analysis of previously secret records shows how numbers of in-custody overdoses, murders and suicides ...

GOSHEN — Elkhart County Circuit Court Judge Michael Christofeno sentenced a woman to 35 years in prison for the death of her baby during court proceedings Thursday. Alauraeve Allen, 24, Elkhart, was ...

In an exclusive interview with NBC5, two former Upstate Corrections Officers shared their experiences after being exposed to ...

Judge calls Robert Crimo ‘irretrievably depraved, permanently incorrigible, irreparably corrupt and beyond any rehabilitation ...

The actor spoke to The Times about the finale of 'You,' and what it was like to let go of his character Joe, a delusional, ...

Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti handed down seven consecutive sentences of natural life in prison without the possibility of parole, as prosecutors requested, for the first-degree murder charges ...