getty images: Prisoner 1027820 is treated in many ways like any other inmate at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada:…
Less than a month after pleading guilty to assaulting his wife, gospel songwriter James Fortune, who accepted a plea deal…
To help further craft their vision for criminal justice reform, Bishop T.D. Jakes and a Dallas County judge visited the…
Because Slager's trial date isn't until October, lawyers argued that keeping him in jail was akin to punishing him for…
Federal inmates at an Oklahoma prison said Wednesday they are hoping a documentary featuring President Barack Obama’s July visit to…
After a five-day stint in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rowan County Clerk Kim…
After being found dead in her jail cell bed on Sunday, a 37-year-old Cleveland native identified as Ralkina Jones became the…
Domonique Scott, one of the stars of TLC’s “The Sisterhood,” was sentenced to one year in confinement followed by 14…
An investigation is underway after a woman was found dead Monday morning in the Waller County Jail. Sandra Bland’s death…
When Frederick Hutson landed in prison at the age of 24 on a drug trafficking charge in Florida, he was…
A new report from MetricMaps details a shocking statistic — in 16 states in the nation, there are more people locked up…
Double-dipping is a rule for a reason. And no, we’re not talking germs, but we are talking personal safety. Take…
A Grand Rapids, Mich. woman was convicted Wednesday and now faces up to seven years in prison after she fired…
The man who devised a scheme to trick more than 400 people out of $16 million was sentenced to 19…
A Rikers Island correction officer who was being sexually assaulted by a convicted sex criminal was rescued by inmates after…
For many Black children born in the 1980s, Ben Carson is a hero. He is, as BuzzFeed’s Joel Anderson describes…
DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The arrest of 43 members of the Heartless Felons Gang is just the start…
COLUMBUS, OH (WOIO) – Federal Judge Gregory Frost has ordered a temporary halt to Ohio executions. Judge Frost issued…
Over the next couple weeks, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County Councils will consider transferring all responsibilities of the city jail to…
Blacks make up the majority of the nation’s population of those serving time in different prisons, whose budgets in…
HUDSON, OH (WOIO) – A Hudson pastor freed last week from a Philippines jail was back at his northeast…
Pastor Tom Randall of Christ Community Chapel in Hudson is now a free man. The pastor had been jailed…
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – Cuyahoga County Prosecutors confirm the nephew of Ariel Castro has been indicted on 22 charges related…
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Sentencing Wednesday morning for a Cleveland woman convicted of abusing her dog. Dog owner Tamara Johnson must…
Clifford Hall (pictured) is certainly no deadbeat dad, yet he was slapped with a 180-day sentence for overpaying his…
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A Cleveland mother was sentenced to a minimum 30-years to life in prison for the murder of her little…
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