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Man gets decades in prison for kidnapping and raping 9-year-old girl in Detroit
A man was sent to prison over no contest pleas relating to the kidnapping and rape of a 9-year-old girl in Detroit.
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In rural Michigan, a prison is reopening as biggest ICE detention hub in Midwest
As the Trump administration tries to ramp up deportations, a Michigan county with 12,000 people will soon be home to an 1,800 ...
Parents outraged by homey prison life for driver who killed their son: 'How is this justice?'
After losing their son to a texting driver, a Colorado family says the justice system protected the offender, not the victim.
SoCal man who killed wife and tossed her severed legs in trash gets 15 years to life in prison
On Friday, a San Diego man was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for smothering his wife to death and tossing her ...
Notorious N.J. mobster — now ‘frail’ and 95 — gets out of prison
He was serving an 80-year prison sentence for a series of crimes, including plotting to kill New York mob boss John Gotti.
8 shooters, 71 shots: Man sentenced to 15 years in prison in deadly Five Points shootout
The exchange of gunfire at 28th and Welton streets killed 25-year-old Gulian Musiwa and 23-year-old Lumumba Sayers Jr.
He's serving life in prison for murder. But his DNA wasn't at the scene.
Prosecutors said Stephen Yarborough was sexually assaulted, then fatally stabbed in his Roxboro, North Carolina, home in 2007 ...
Second defendant sentenced to 32 years in Colorado prison in deadly rock-throwing case
The second of three defendants was sentenced in a Jefferson County courtroom to 32 years in a Colorado prison for his role in ...
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Private prison group fought tax bill before landing ICE contract for Michigan facility
GEO Group contested its property tax value on an idle Michigan prison last year. It's now gearing up to reopen the prison as ...
‘Connecticut Cannibal’ Tyree Smith was a ‘serious threat to life’ in prison before release: report
New prison documents show that Tyree Smith, who has been dubbed the “Connecticut Cannibal,” exhibited violent behavior behind bars and was a “serious threat to life” in ...