California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now.

SAN FRANCISCO – A former state correctional officer pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of wire fraud in connection with a plot to plant contraband he then pretended to discover, prosecutors said.

R. Kelly's attorneys file an emergency motion seeking home detention, alleging that prison officials are scheming with racist inmates to have the singer killed.

A new programme using a form of horse therapy is attempting to tackle the trauma that is thought to lie behind the high rates of arrest and imprisonment among US veterans.

Two burglars who plotted the heist of a $6.4 million golden toilet, a fully-functional 18-karat piece of contemporary art that was ripped from the plumbing of an English mansion, were sentenced Friday to more than two years in a British prison.

Avenatti, already in a federal prison for being found guilty in December 2022 of stealing millions of dollars from his clients, was re-sentenced Thursday before a federal judge in Santa Ana after an appellate court ruling that overturned the length of his sentence.

A former prison officer at a high-security jail where a member of staff was recently stabbed by an inmate, has said the "floodgates" have been opened on the use of drones to smuggle in weapons and drugs.

The lawyer used her attorney status to smuggle the drug to an inmate with whom she had a personal relationship.

A Madison student was attacked in September 2023 in what prosecutors described as one of the most brutal assaults in recent memory.

A woman accused of killing a bicyclist in a hit-and-run is heading to prison, Colorado officials said. Ana Caren Romero, 25, was sentenced to five years behind bars after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide, the Weld County District Attorney’s Office said in a June 12 news release.