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Federal prosecutors says a former Mississippi prison guard has pleaded guilty in the 2019 beating of an inmate

Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi set to take stage again in second celebration of the beloved film.

‘His eyes were glassy, and his mouth pasty’

Editorial: This 17-year-long wrongful imprisonment scandal has lessons for all levels of the criminal justice system

Security personnel caught a prison maintenance man, Bhanuprakash H.R., trying to smuggle a mobile phone into the prison. He was under the influence of alcohol and handed over to prison authorities. Police suspect he was trying to give the phone to inmates to make calls and money. The incident has…

After Auckland's CBD shooting the knives were out for home detention sentences – but is it the justice system we should be pointing at, or is the problem more deeply-rooted?

The figures came in the latest safety in custody statistics for England and Wales.

An Arizona mother who pleaded guilty to murder and child abuse faces up to life in prison for the 2020 starvation death of her 6-year-old son who had been locked in a closet and denied food at their Flagstaff apartment

Decision on Pitchfork, who raped and strangled to death two 15-year-olds in the 1980s, now sent back to Parole Board

Congress passes bill that could allow 900 people to be tried together if they are accused of being in the same criminal group

After fleeing their homes in Iran, Mostafa Azimitabar and Farhad Bandesh spent eight years detained by Australia. A new film, Freedom is Beautiful, tracks their journey