A man whose attempt at robbery led to the death of a New York City police officer has been sentenced to 33 years in prison.

'The number of people currently incarcerated is staggering, and their needs after prison are even more staggering.'

Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney is taking a rather interesting line of reasoning to argue that the accused madame should be granted bail.

A report claims that 12 men, some of them sex offenders, have been transferred to women's prisons in Scotland after identifying as women.

The coronavirus pandemic - and its impact on the labor market - has pushed many corrections systems into crisis.

Summit County prosecutors said that Stanley Ford killed a couple in 2016 and two adults and five children in 2017.

The female corrections officers are both single moms in their 30s who support their families by working at the understaffed jail.

The Supreme Court rejected a plea to reimpose the death penalty on a South Carolina inmate whose sentence had stood for two decades.

'The medical evidence proves what Ms. Hoover-Moore has always said: She is innocent,' advocate Joanna Sanchez said.

A federal judge has accused jail officials of potentially deliberate mistreatment of a Jan. 6 defendant and called for an investigation.