More than 100 inmates freed from New York’s Rikers Island prison complex over fears of the Chinese coronavirus spreading have since been rearrested for crimes, new details reveal.
The infamous Blue Bell “ice cream licker” is going to jail for the crime he committed at a Walmart in Port Arthur, Texas, in August.
A suspect accused of beating his girlfriend in Harriman, New York, was released on an appearance ticket Tuesday.
A man in Vero Beach, Florida, was sentenced to 90 days in jail Thursday for spitting on a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat in October.
Model and left-wing activist Chrissy Teigen has warned that there “needs to be jail time” for President Donald Trump and the “whole” Trump family as Democrats in Congress continue to pursue impeachment proceedings against him.
A former neurosurgeon and accused child molester was found dead of an apparent suicide inside his cell in Santa Cruz, California, over the weekend.
Sixteen female inmates have chosen to be baptized as part of a new program at the Blount County Jail in Oneonta, Alabama.
Does the phrase “convicted felon” seem too harsh? A Calif. city board thinks so, and now they want people to say “justice-involved person.”
Shrieking and shouting was heard coming from Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell the morning he was found dead, reports said.
Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig said Saturday that individuals “close” to Jeffrey Epstein — the accused child sex-trafficker and millionaire investor found dead in his New York City jail cell Saturday morning — have fears that he was murdered.
It was “inexcusable” that deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein was not kept under constant suicide watch in his cell, said Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) on Saturday morning.
An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking scheme named two prominent Democrats as part of a group of men with whom she was forced to have sex, unsealed documents revealed Friday.
Over 7,000 people have died in Venezuelan prisons since the socialist regime seized power in 1999, according to a study published Thursday by the Venezuelan Prison Observatory (OVP).
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) pledged Friday to ban both private prisons and immigration centers if elected president.
If you condemn Western civilization, suddenly those 68 imprisoned journalists aren’t all that important to a disgraced propaganda outlet like the Washington Post.
Two Democrats running for political office who are convicted of crimes may be celebrating their electoral victories behind bars should they win their elections.
There has been a 23 percent surge in drugs found in UK prisons in just one year, with the number of prisoners testing positive hitting a 12-year high.
TEL AVIV – A Jordanian journalist who spent time in an Israeli prison told a Saudi TV station that he was “ashamed” of the differences between prisons in the Arab world and those of Israel, in which prisoners are able to receive an education.
“What about Comey and Crooked Hillary and all of the others?” Trump wrote. “Very unfair!”
A Florida woman is in hot water with authorities after she allegedly called 911 under the guise of reporting a medical emergency to obtain beer.
The UK has set up two new ‘separation wings’ in prisons to isolate jihadists and other extremists and stop them spreading their murderous ideology.
TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Authority plans to continue paying the salaries of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, which includes convicted terrorists, according to Dr. Nabil Shath, a senior adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
A rising number of prisoners caught with extremist Islamist texts in UK jails is fuelling fears the prison system is becoming a hotbed of radicalisation.
An Egyptian immigrant, convicted paedophile, and serial rapist will have his jail term in the UK reduced because he is deaf and cannot hear the television in his cell or chat to other inmates.
A judge sentenced an Ohio millionaire known as the “Food Stamp Millionaire” to 30 days behind bars for welfare fraud.
The Department of Homeland Security wants to rent more space in jails in Chicago, Detroit, Minnesota, and Utah, to hold more illegal immigrants before their repatriation, according to a federal request to companies.
A Maine woman says she would rather risk jail time than take down her yard signs in support of President Trump after city officials said she had to remove them.
After serving nine years in jail for armed robbery, on Thursday O.J. Simpson was awarded a promise of parole by a Nevada parole board. But the decision doesn’t simply end O.J.’s obligations to the Nevada criminal justice system. Simpson still faces years of requirements, any violation of which could send him right back to prison.
A Chicago-area jail went on lockdown Sunday after more than 200 corrections officers called out sick for Mother’s Day, sheriffs said.
LONDON (AP) — An abusive British husband whose original sentence for assaulting his wife sparked outrage among domestic violence groups was jailed for 18 months on Friday after new information came to light from a county cricket team.
A teen who made headlines in 2015 when she led a gang assault at a McDonald’s is now causing terror of a different sort at New York City’s infamous Rikers Island prison.
Six inmates escaped from an eastern Tennessee jail by ripping a toilet from a concrete wall and climbing out of a hole behind it to freedom.
A Georgia woman accused of robbing, beating, and burning a grandmother who later died has been caught taking selfies and posting them to social media while behind bars.
“I will say this, Hillary Clinton has got to go to jail,” Trump told his supporters at a campaign rally in San Jose, California, referencing Clinton’s email scandal where she used a private server while secretary of state. “Folks, honestly, she’s guilty as hell.”
TEL AVIV – The openly gay grandson of a West Bank Hamas founder has finally found refuge in the United States, VICE News reported.
A famous property developer who helped develop the Ritz-Carlton developments in Washington and Aspen, Colorado may go to jail because his gargantuan 30,000 square foot Bel-Air, California residence, nicknamed the “Starship Enterprise,” which boasts several floor levels balanced on a hillside and includes a 70-seat IMAX cinema, violated city planning orders.
Activist immigration groups are firing racial profiling allegations against Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell.
One of the oddest spectacles of recent years has been the political class’s utter befuddlement as to the decline in crime over recent decades.
On Friday, Donald Trump said he believed “both sides of the picture,” regarding the jailing of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who went to jail for refusing to issue same-sex licenses from her office.
West coast Rapper The Game was taken into police custody Monday, for allegedly punching an off-duty police officer in the face during an altercation earlier this year.
