Scotland's justice secretary Angela Constance has conceded the early release of prisoners to tackle record overcrowding will cause anxiety for victims. The emergency scheme which will see nearly 1,000 ...

County justice officials and state legislators say sentence computation reviews resulted in ‘time-served credit’ being applied incorrectly; two sex offenders and a drunk driver released earlier than ...

John Carter, who admitted to causing the death of his fiancée Katelyn Markham, is asking a judge for early release from prison after serving a little more than a year of his three-year sentence.Carter ...

NEW YORK – As far as Ghislaine Maxwell is concerned, her recent move to a more comfortable prison could not have gone better. Leaked emails show the convicted child sex trafficker, who is serving 20 ...

This includes 139 hardened criminals locked up for more than 14 years and 329 jailed for between 10 and 14 years.