Three former upstate New York prison guards on trial in the fatal beating of a Black handcuffed inmate took part in an act of “sheer, unimaginable brutality,” a prosecutor told a jury Tuesday. Mathew Galliher,

Residents in liberal San Francisco lash out at soft-on-crime policies, saying justice reform has gone too far after deadly crash case sparks fury.

Lake County Common Pleas Judge Vincent A. Culotta sentenced 31-year-old Troy Lacey to four years in prison on Sept. 25, after he pleaded guilty to felony charges of failure to comply with a police order, as well as possession of a controlled substance, police said.

William Arnold ‘Billy’ Armendariz III is ‘worth saving,’ said his attorney, who argued for life in prison. The prosecutor said the defendant is ‘evil.’

At issue in the civil case is whether punishments for prisoners who refuse to work are so coercive that they actually force prisoners to work against their will.

Baltimore's top prosecutor Ivan Bates explains how focusing on repeat violent offenders and invoking mandatory minimums helped reduce the city's murder rate significantly.

Light-skinned with a thick mustache and a cold gaze, Bishnoi has long been accused by India’s top investigative body, the National Investigation Agency, of commanding a fearsome network of more than 700 members from behind bars, where he faces a litany of charges from criminal conspiracy and extortion, to murder and terror activities.

Prosecutors say a woman convicted of murdering family members with toxic mushrooms was given a "manifestly inadequate" sentence, and they want it extended.

Israeli authorities say they have deported another 171 activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla, including Greta Thunberg.

Ernest Nichols, 60, who was behind bars for repeatedly raping a 15-year-old girl, was killed by an inmate in his North Carolina cell.