When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving time fo ...

Texas is scheduled to execute a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club, and ...

Members of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony Wednesday on five bail-related bills aimed at ...

"This should concern anyone who believes in the rule of law." Multiple ...

Though many individual Houston-area schools improved this year, close to half performed worse according to data from Children ...

One year after pleading guilty, a Cleburne man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. Steven Robert Sablan, 63, was sentenced to 420 months in ...

A Texas man was sentenced to 35 years in prison after kidnapping a 13-year-old, driving her to California, threatening her ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Texas Man Arrested in Long Beach to Serve 35 Years in Federal Prison for Kidnapping 13-Year-Old Girl at Gunpoint and Repeatedly Assaulting Her ...

A man who bragged online about molesting his young relatives appeared in a West Palm Beach courtroom with the full support of ...

These are the first independent images to emerge from the migrant operation that the Trump administration has begun at the ...