The federal Bureau of Prisons is shutting down its Terminal Island facility near Los Angeles over concerns about crumbling ...

Prison staff have been criticised for restraining a 76-year-old rapist before he died from organ failure as a result of ...

Nathan Tolbert received a three-year prison sentence after being convicted of taking a firefighter's gear, valued at $2,000, ...

The son of a woman who has been detained in Iran has written her a letter to mark her 53rd birthday. Craig and Lindsay ...

According to Parkland County RCMP, an impaired driver was headed east in the westbound lanes of Highway 16a when it ...

Brazilian police have launched a major operation to dismantle a tax evasion and money-laundering scheme in the fuel sector.

Sri Lanka closed government offices and schools Friday as the death toll from floods and landslides across the country rose ...

A San Mateo assisted-living kitchen worker has been sentenced after a 2022 incident in which a powerful cleaning solution was ...

A new law introduced by a California congressman would raise the minimum legal age of child workers in agriculture from 12 to ...

The shooting took place near the White House in Washington DC on Wednesday afternoon - two National Guardsmen are in a ...

Melanie Webb, a criminal defence lawyer in Toronto and chair of the CBA’s criminal justice section, says it’s well-established that cash bail is only supposed to be relied upon in exceptional ...

The selection of the next Sunset supervisor has pivoted from secretive to ‘Who Wants to Be a Supervisor?’ — and everyone’s ...