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.

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, ...

(The Center Square) – The Washington State Sentencing Guidelines Commission has voted 7–2–3 (seven in favor, two against, and three abstentions) to recommend a policy to the Legislature that would ...

The exasperation and frustrations of officers, prosecutors, advocates for and families of addicts and other victims, and others can be as eye-popping as spotting a discarded needle in a downtown alley ...

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles woman has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after she pleaded guilty in two cases that were resolved together. Makyla R. Cleveland, 31, was sentenced to a Drug ...

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In Idaho prisons, more than two dozen women say guards prey on them with little fear of consequences — and those who speak up are often punished. Their accounts, gathered over an almost yearlong ...