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.
Two actors in Thailand will spend the next two years behind bars, after a court found them guilty of insulting the country’s royal monarchs during a 2013 student performance. Patiwat Saraiyaem, 23, and Pornthip Munkong, 26, were each handed separate five-year
A self-proclaimed atheist student in Egypt has been sentenced to serving three years in prison after a court found him guilty of insulting Islam, in addition to receiving testimony from his own father against him charging that he “was embracing extremist ideas against Islam.”
