On this day (January 1) in 1958, Johnny Cash played a free concert behind the walls of San Quentin Prison in California. It would be the first of many concerts Cash played for groups of incarcerated ...

Photographs of Derek Williams and his loved ones. (Photo by Jonathan Aguilar / Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service / CatchLight Local) A big goal of mine when I started reporting on criminal justice ...

Getting arrested is a rite of passage for many actors, and they usually wind up walking free before long. However, these film and TV stars might be behind bars for the rest of their lives. Donald ...

More than two decades after Laci Peterson vanished from her Modesto, California, home, the murder case that captivated the nation continues to draw legal challenges, public debate and renewed ...

A federal judge on Monday gave the Trump administration two weeks to submit a plan to either return a group of Venezuelan men previously held at a notorious Salvadoran prison to the U.S., or give them ...

While the furor over CBS News’ decision to delay a “60 Minutes” report about deportees sent by the Trump administration to a notorious Salvadoran prison persisted Monday, the finished segment was ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — One of the three escaped DeKalb County Jail inmates who were discovered missing Monday morning has an extensive and violent record of attacks on gay men in particular, including a ...

A man has again been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 28-year-old Monique Baugh. Lyndon Wiggins, 40, was ordered on Monday to spend the rest of his days in prison without the possibility ...

Leaving prison after almost 20 years felt like waking from a nightmare. I had been sentenced to life for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense. My two brothers were locked away too, and while we ...

Lyndon Wiggins will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced for the murder of Minneapolis real estate agent Monique Baugh. Wiggins was sentenced on Monday after being convicted ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Two men released after juvenile life sentences are using entrepreneurship and reentry support to build stable and independent lives. A Supreme Court ruling, Montgomery vs.