After Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Ranger played graphic videos depicting the abuse of a dog in court Tuesday, she ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. I was one of the researchers in the well-known Stanford prison experiment in 1971, demonstrating the destructive ...

I was one of the researchers in the well-known Stanford prison experiment in 1971, demonstrating the destructive dynamics that are generated when one group of people — randomly assigned as “guards” — ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

POCOPSON TWP., Pa. - The Chester County District Attorney's Office announced that an attempted prison escape has been thwarted. Authorities say this afternoon, an inmate attempted to escape from ...

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges related to buying stolen human remains from a Berks County man and others. Jeremy Pauley, 43, of Thompson, Susquehanna County, ...

Former Bethlehem Police Department school resource officer Costas Alestas was sentenced Monday to 10 to 20 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a student at East Hills Middle School, ...

*Bad Boy vs Death Row all over again? Not. Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison in October 2025. The sentence came after a July 2025 conviction on two counts of ...

A 65-year-old man died late last week at Lancaster County Prison, according to authorities. John Bigley Jr., who was admitted to the prison on the evening of Jan. 1, died the next day, officials said ...