Dex Lauper walks free from Manhattan court after pleading guilty to gun possession, trading seven years in prison for probation.

The woman accused of shooting up Rihanna’s mansion received a public defender after being charged with attempted murder.

In the author’s third novel, ‘The Fervent Whites’ (One World, June), a wrongly convicted white couple’s return from prison to their predominantly Black hamlet stirs up old resentments.

A registered sex offender in Forsyth County who spent nearly a decade in state prison for child molestation and sexual exploitation of children has been sentenced to federal prison. A press release ...

The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office recommended closing the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad to help California reduce its corrections spending. Andrew Kuhn akuhn@mercedsun-star.com ...

A screenshot of a video of a protest in Canaleta prison, in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. UNPACU, José Daniel Ferrer. Unprecedented videos coming out of a high-security prison in Cuba have shown, possibly for ...

Camden County officials have announced where a potential regional jail won't go. You can rule out Winslow, county officials said in a statement Feb. 16 — after the town's mayor made it clear that the ...

Arlene Ruth Winslow, 81, passed away on Jan. 20, 2026, after a brief hospitalization in Canton, Ga. Born Nov. 22, 1944, to missionary parents, she spent her earliest years in Maharashtra, India.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado Department of Corrections officials forced inmates to work prison jobs through coercion that ultimately amounted to involuntary servitude, a Denver ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Workers and inmates at Coastal State Prison are reporting what they call a human rights crisis, echoing findings from a federal investigation into Georgia’s prison system. A ...

At a critical juncture in director/screenwriter Bart Layton’s extraordinary noir-saturated heist thriller, two main characters are seated in a car discussing a pair of iconic Steve McQueen – 1968’s ...