Six charged in jail fight Six men were recently charged in a Lake County Jail fight on Feb. 3 that left a prisoner with a broken eye socket. Stephon Joiner, Jailin David, Dexter Gilbert Jr., Robert ...

The court postponed a potential sixth execution, that of Steven Bixby, who killed two police officers in an Abbeville County land dispute in December 2003. Bixby was slated to be put to death in May, ...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit considered whether allegations of a prison officer’s destruction of a prisoner’s ...

A prisoner pleaded no contest in the murder of his cellmate at the Macomb County Correction Facility in Lenox.

Jay Circuit Court Judge Brian Hutchison on Thursday imposed a three-year sentence — one year on home detention followed by ...

Hamas has accepted a proposal to release an American-Israeli hostage and the remains of four dual-nationals. The announcement came as ceasefire negotiations progressed in Qatar. The United States, led ...

If Selena had confronted her differently, this never would have happened,” a family member of Yolanda Saldívar.

As voters in the United States settle into the new Trump administration, many are wondering what the country’s role might be in the devastating conflict.

A lawsuit has been filed against the Illinois Prisoner Review Board and other agencies one year after an 11-year-old boy was stabbed to death while trying to protect his pregnant mother. The man ...

Deputies arrived to find the man on the floor of the cell after the apparent attack, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The Americans, many of whom are veterans and former military contractors, were convicted on drug charges, a representative for their families told ABC News.