A federal appeals court on Friday allowed for the biologically accurate placement of transgender prisoners in accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive on housing inmates by biological sex, a ...

A Mississippi death row inmate convicted in a 2017 killing spree that left eight people dead is asking the state’s highest court to overturn his conviction and death sentence.In a petition filed ...

After a lengthy appeal process, Texas death row inmate James Broadnax’s case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court amid concerns that he did not receive a fair trial because he is a Black man ...

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HONOLULU (Island News) – A Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) employee was arrested and charged for offenses related to fraud and theft. On April 8, 2026, Julianne Kaniaupio faced nine ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland man who killed a 17-year-old girl to keep her quiet about a bank robbery was attacked in a private prison by members of a street gang looking to exact revenge, according ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied two appeals from Dallas County death row inmate James Broadnax three days ahead of his scheduled execution. Broadnax, 37, made two appeals to the Supreme Court ...

In Roman Polanski's ‘Chinatown’, Nicholson plays Jake Gittes, a private detective who gets caught up in a web of corruption in Los Angeles in the 1930s. His skepticism slowly gives way to unease as ...

This report was updated with new information. A Hamilton County corrections officer was arrested Nov. 20 and accused of striking an inmate with his belt, according to court documents. Jordan Anderson, ...

A Florida man convicted of killing his cellmate with a pen smiled and laughed as a judge sentenced him to life in prison Tuesday. Marcus Terry, 43, was found guilty of second-degree murder in December ...

Willie Cory Godbolt, the man convicted of killing eight people in Mississippi, including a law enforcement officer and members of his family, is seeking for the state's highest court to reverse his ...