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 ...

Tulsans started new chapters of their life Friday after graduating from Tulsa County's Drug, DUI and Veterans treatment court ...

The state has agreed to pay $395,000 to the family of a 20-year-old man killed at the Nebraska State Penitentiary at the ...

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 ...

Joe spends a good chunk of the finale trying to get in touch with the son he shared with Love. "I need to tell him that ...

Under U.S. law, noncitizens may be detained and deported, but they can't be punished and imprisoned without a trial.

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

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 ...

Riverside County jails are plagued with some of the nation's highest murder rates and repeated security failures, an ...

Carlton Alexander German, 38, and Jamari Tylik Williams, 22, both of Hardeeville, were charged Friday with first-degree arson ...