Peach and Blossom are thankful. As is usual on this purely American holiday, the president earlier this week pardoned the two ...

Between 1984 and 2015, 43 men at Central Prison — North Carolina’s home for male death row inmates — were executed. Death row ...

W5's Avery Haines tells the story of Jack Letts, a Canadian Muslim convert in a Syrian jail, accused of being a member of ...

WDSU first reported on Leon Brooks in July after he was captured on video near Tulane University, where women reported he was ...

An Albuquerque woman was sentenced to prison on Wednesday for the death of one of her 6-month-old twins in 2023. Gloria ...

Erik and Lyle Menendez have been behind bars for nearly 35 years -- and the sensational case is still riveting the nation.

Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill banning transgender K-12 students from using school bathrooms consistent with their transgender identity. They can only use the bathrooms matching ...

Jeffrey Dahmer 's death bore an eerie similarity to the first murder he committed.

Fugees founder Pras Michel faces a 22-year prison sentence in a complex corruption case linked to China and the 1MDB scandal.

Eduardo Escobedo, a convicted drug trafficker affiliated with the Sinaloa cartel, was killed last Thanksgiving in Los Angeles ...

San Quentin is being redesigned for rehabilitation, with more green space and classrooms to help prisoners prepare to reenter ...

A criminal justice system transformed with a goal of keeping as few people in jail or prison as possible, for as short a time ...