Billy Leon Kearse spent 29 years on death row for killing Fort Pierce police Sgt. Danny Parrish in 1991 — and the case likely ...

On Friday, a Bexar County judge sentenced Dominique Croom to life in prison for the 2023 murder of Robert Diaz.

Research shows people often “age out” of crime, and health care costs are ballooning. But still, many states oppose releasing ...

Arizona has become the first state to file criminal charges against Kalshi, accusing the prediction market platform of ...

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison guards googled the sex predator minutes before he was found dead — and also made a mysterious $5,000 cash deposit 10 days before the predator’s jail-cell suicide, new ...

On the Friday, March 6, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Alabama Solution” offers rare, unfiltered access inside Alabama’s prison system, exposing the stark human cost of mass incarceration.

Years after his 25-year-old son Kylan died in a Tennessee prison run by CoreCivic, Tim Leeper of Lebanon sat before a Senate panel to share a proposal designed to help provide transparency and ...

A Waynesboro man was sentenced to five years in prison for possessing child sexual abuse images. Jordan T. Urban pleaded guilty to six felony charges of possessing child pornography. As part of a plea ...

A Staunton man was sentenced to seven years in prison for a theft involving pepper spray. Joshua Lee Talley was convicted of illegal use of tear gas and petty larceny. The incident occurred at a ...

Indiana State Prison has seen more suicides than any prison in the state. Nearly all of the mental health employees at the prison left within weeks, even days, of each other. The former employees said ...