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.

Following in the footsteps of some north central West Virginia cities, a highly debated statewide camping ban bill is making its way through the West Virginia Legislature.

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

RANKIN CO., Miss. (WLBT) — An opioid crisis is sweeping across the country, creating both a health crisis and a crime problem. For many people arrested on drug charges, the path is predictable: jail, ...

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New Yorkers gathered at the State Capitol to call for passage of three criminal justice bills that would address outdated ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Legislation that would require Kentucky courts to consider alternative sentences for certain nonviolent felony convictions where the defendant is a primary caretaker of a dependent ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The 18-year-old who pleaded guilty to killing five people in Raleigh's Hedingham neighborhood in October 2022 will soon learn his fate. Austin Thompson's trial for the deadly ...

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OTHELLO — An Othello man was sentenced to about five years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to having sexual contact with a minor. Jesus Gutierrez-Guzman, 28, was sentenced in Adams County ...