Stuck in Panama are asylum-seekers from places like Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, China, Sri Lanka. They are caught in limbo – ...

Facing possible life in prison for charges including murder, Favors pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of voluntary ...

While the Bay State can boast the lowest incarceration rate among the 50 states, it spends more than twice per prisoner as ...

A 47-year-old Wisconsin man will spend seven years in federal prison after being sentenced on Thursday by Chief U.S. District ...

Gun Owners of America, another gun-rights group, contends people should have a Second Amendment right to own machine guns.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced that 324 Venezuelan migrants were sent to a maximum-security prison in El ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said people deemed 'unproductive' to America were sent to El Salvador prison. Straight out of the Nazi playbook.

Two Slovenians sentenced for plotting to traffic heroin into the U.S.; Filimonovic got 10 years, Urbanc 13 years.

Louisiana, New York and other states are rolling back reforms — and efforts to reduce excessive sentencing or expand parole ...

What’s Your KCQ? looks back at the prisoner of war camps that were scattered across the KC region during World War II.

Donald Trump reposted a video of Trevor Milton celebrating a pardon after he was sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding millions out of investors.

The professional soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios is a case in point. Agents assumed his tattoo was that of a gang. His ...