Days after criticism from residents, an Ohio jail tried to create its own version of Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz." ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is dismissing renewed efforts to reopen Alcatraz Island as a federal prison after U.S.

Under President Donald Trump, the Justice Department has asked a judge to consider a significantly lighter sentencing.

A serial robber from Boston reoffended by breaking into a Fenway brewery, a few weeks after his release from prison, ...

PONTIAC, MI -- A former pastor was sentenced to between 4 and 15 years in prison Thursday in connection with the 2023 sexual assault of a teen. Kenneth Flowers, 64, of Farmington Hills was sentenced ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum were in San Francisco as part of a plan to formally launch the ...

The coach, Gary Franklin, had contended that Geragos and the now-disgraced and disbarred lawyer Michael Avenatti had bungled ...

Smith State Prison in Glennville and the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson have new wardens ...

The Trump administration is taking steps toward reopening Alcatraz to house detained immigrants and criminals. The notorious ...

An inmate at the Westmoreland County Prison was allegedly denied transport to a hearing on Monday because he wouldn't take off his yarmulke. In a brief phone conversation on Thursday with KDKA, Kort ...

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has criticized President Trump’s proposal to reopen the historic Alcatraz prison, calling it “the stupidest initiative put forth by this ...

The school failed to take action to protect students from Nicholas Jordan, the 26-year-old man who killed his roommate Samuel ...