The death in jail of Hawaiian crime boss Mike Miske was a carefully orchestrated suicide intended to ensure that his criminal proceeds remained in the family, federal prosecutors alleged this week.

In his first major sit-down from behind bars, the disgraced mogul fumes about life at Rikers ("I’m dying here"), his wrecked ...

Carmen Mejia was cleared of murder in connection with the death of a baby in her care, who was scalded by hot water in 2003 in Austin, Texas. Federal officials said she will be allowed to stay in the ...

Leonard Jones, who holds the title of being among the longest held in Santa Rita Jail, is working toward reducing his 59-year prison sentence, while simultaneously fighting with the Alameda County ...

The Fiji Corrections Service is planning to relocate the Suva Prison as part of a major infrastructure overhaul aimed at ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A woman imprisoned for shooting her husband to death in a widely publicized 1993 crime was released on Thursday after Gov. Mike DeWine commuted her sentence. On Tuesday, DeWine ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A woman imprisoned for shooting her husband to death in a widely publicized 1993 crime was released on Thursday after Gov. Mike DeWine commuted her sentence. On Tuesday, DeWine ...

A man who raped, stabbed and murdered a 19-year-old Indianapolis woman more than 30 years ago was sentenced to 45 years in prison on Friday, closing a decades-old cold case. Dana Shepherd, 53, was ...

The Huntsville Unit, the state’s oldest prison in Texas dating to 1849, is shown here on Oct. 10, 2017. The state of Texas is defending its prison system against a lawsuit that says the lack of air ...

A former Miami Heat security officer has been sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $1.9 million in restitution for stealing hundreds of game-worn jerseys and other ...