The country’s prison facilities, which operate at 375 percent overcapacity, are the third worst in the world after the Democratic Republic of Congo (600 percent) and Haiti (400 percent).

R. Kelly's racketeering and sex trafficking convictions, along with a 30-year prison sentence, were upheld Wednesday by a federal appeals court that concluded the singer exploited ...

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Statutory body began looking at convictions of subpostmasters who used the Capture system following the wider understanding ...

Over 50 women from 30 churches and 18 countries are participating in a regional convening to address gender-based violence, ...

Like everyone who comes into contact with the criminal justice system, people with mental illness have rights and ...

The family of hit-and-run victim Joe Drennan want changes to concurrent sentencing that would prevent it in the case of death ...

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Emil Bove sat in lower Manhattan, watching on television as a pro-Trump mob invaded the US Capitol, violently attacking ...

Imagine spending years in prison for a crime you didn’t commit. Fairfax County is taking a big step to prevent that from ...