The Department of Justice has announced federal cuts to Maine's prison system over the state's policy allowing transgender ...

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Amanda Knox now considers herself lucky. But she didn’t more than a decade ago when she sat in a claustrophobic Italian prison cell after being convicted of murdering her roommate while studying ...

The facility, known as the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, is a maximum-security prison built by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele that can hold up to 40,000 people. Those incarcerated at ...

DUNN COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) - The long awaited end to a decades long story arrived with the sentencing of Jon Miller Thursday afternoon. He will be doing life in prison for the stabbing death of Mary ...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s photo op in an El Salvadoran prison drew swift backlash online, but some observers are pointing out that it may have also violated the ...

On Mar. 27, 2025, a Pasquotank County jury recommended four sentences of death for Jonathan Michael Monk. Monk was accused of helping start a fire at the prison on October 12, 2017 before ...

THOMASVILLE, Ga. (WCTV) - A woman was sentenced to life in prison with parole Thursday morning for poisoning her husband in 2021 in Thomas County, according to a Thomas County Sheriff’s Office ...

Amanda Knox after the first session of her appeal against her murder conviction on November 24, 2010 in Perugia, Italy ; Amanda Knox is interviewed on Good Morning America on March 25, 2025 in New ...

Amanda Knox now considers herself lucky. But she didn’t more than a decade ago when she sat in a claustrophobic Italian prison cell after being convicted of murdering her roommate while studying ...

It didn't take long for a judge to sentence Rickey Holdsclaw to prison. Holdsclaw, 75, was found guilty of shooting and killing his ailing wife, 72-year-old Judy Allred Helms, immediately after his ...