Successful petitions to receive compassionate early release from federal prisons due to health issues are rare. They are even ...

Roughly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders nationwide received a grant of executive clemency in January, including 10 people in ...

While working as a detention officer at the Harris County jail, the 22-year-old was caught on video pushing a handcuffed ...

The defunct Dublin women's prison could be re purposed by the Trump administration as a migrant detention center, according to our media partner The East Bay Times.

A local man who admitted to keeping his young daughter tied up in a dog crate among other forms of abuse is heading to prison ...