Before being sentenced for rape, 18-year-old Logansport resident Eli Guffey re-stated his guilt. Cass County Superior 2 Judge Lisa Swaim said she wanted to make sure there was no misunderstanding ...

An opioid crisis is sweeping across the country, creating both a health crisis and a crime problem.

Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...

The new Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women is designed as a “more humane” replacement to an embattled facility closing after 112 years in operation.

The State of the Union was full of fearmongering. That strategy isn’t working with voters anymore — and Donald Trump is ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' political action committee contributed $3,500 to state Senate candidate Brad Simon two days ...

In Kansas, a "hard 25" sentence is a mandatory life term that requires a defendant to serve a minimum of 25 years in prison ...

Advocates, activists, Democratic lawmakers, and families of incarcerated New Yorkers gathered at the State Capitol to call for passage of three criminal justice bills that would address outdated ...

A teenager who killed two other teens outside the Mall in Columbia last year while wearing an ankle monitor has been convicted of first-degree murder. Emmetson Zeah, who was 18 and on home detention ...

PA's Deluzio attends SOTU while Lee joins alternative event ...

The families of those boys murdered by Emmetson Zeah should also go after the judge, Howard County and even the state of Maryland for granting Zeah home detention in the first place for attempted ...