There is a game camera trained on the entrance to the proposed prison site in Franklin County. It has captured mysterious ...

HERE is a look back at 12 of the most shocking court cases that the Star covered during 2025.

A McKinney man is going to spend life in prison after being found guilty of a 2017 cold case murder, according to Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis. Kerrico Carr, 44, received his sentence ...

A man set fire to cars belonging to prison staff at HMP Grampian in Peterhead on Christmas Day, a court has heard Graeme Seivwright, 43, admitted involvement in the blaze on 25 December 2023. Three ...

A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - A Broward jury decided to give a convicted police killer life in prison without parole after deliberating for just a few hours on Monday. Twenty-two-year-old Jason ...

A recent National Academy of Sciences report criticized traditional ways of measuring success after individuals are released from prison that are entrenched in identifying failure by relying solely on ...

A car salesman who stole money from an elderly customer and received more than $500,000 in phony COVID relief has been sentenced to prison. James J. Mastrogiovanni, 45, of Washington Township ...

A 23-year-old inmate at Jessup Correctional Institution died Saturday under suspicious circumstances, officials said. Deon Sheridan Smith Jr., who faced life in prison for felony murder, had been at ...

Based on a six-year investigation and contraband cellphone footage that courageous incarcerated men supplied from inside one of America’s most dangerous and dysfunctional prison systems, filmmakers ...

A Paradise Township man who stole a car at gunpoint and told his wife he was carjacked will spend up to four years in prison after being sentenced on Wednesday. Aharon Darnell Jones, 36, pleaded ...

Recidivism reveals a gap between punishment and rehabilitation. Psychology explains why incarceration alone rarely transforms ...