Opioid overdose deaths are drastically down in the past year. So, too, are overall crime, arrests, and other indicators tied to Virginia’s opioid epidemic.

Three former sheriff's deputies in Virginia have been charged with second-degree murder over the death of a man they restrained at a local jail last year, prosecutors announced Friday.

This is part of a series on crime and justice in Virginia. Read the other posts here: Pre-Arrest, Pretrial. Virginia has long ...

This is part of a series on crime and justice in Virginia. Read the other posts here: Pre-Arrest, Post-Conviction. A ...

A judge is considering whether delusional beliefs about the legal system are enough to prevent a South Carolina prisoner from ...

A Maryland inmate has been indicted for first-degree murder in connection with the death of another inmate at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Somerset County. Tyjuan Chapple, 26, was charged ...

The July death of Alexis Cardenas, one of more than 10 people to die in Harris County Jail custody this year, was classified as a homicide on Tuesday by the county medical examiner. Cardenas, 32, died ...

WESTOVER, M.d. - Maryland State Police announced today that they are charging an Eastern Correctional Institution inmate with first-degree murder following an investigation into another inmate's death ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the U.S. illegally to self-deport, Department of ...

BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — In adding three facilities to the Virginia Department of Corrections’ (VADOC) “Virginia Model” program, the department has spent over $462,000 in incentives for inmates ...

Police revealed the cause of death for former U.S. Attorney Jessica Aber on Monday, months after she died in her sleep at home in March. The medical examiner's office in Alexandria, Virginia says the ...

In hand-written letters and testimony, Scotty Ray Gardner has made his desire to speed up his capital murder case clear. Gardner, 65, on Arkansas' death row for killing his girlfriend in Conway in ...