In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

Hundreds of women have been raped and burnt to death following a jail break which occured at the Munzenze jail in Goma, DR ...

Switzerland's top criminal court on Friday convicted a multinational company for the first time, ruling against commodities ...

Angola, USA” and Stanley Nelson’s “Attica,” building on their insights. And it infiltrates the world of prison with an ingenuity, and emotional directness, made possible (in this case ...

SIOUX CITY -- A Sioux City man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison for possession of a sawed-off shotgun and another gun charge. Conrad Lyons, 36, pleaded guilty in August in U.S ...

At Nottoway Correctional Center, the outlook was bleak. Two nurses at the all-male state prison staffed a day shift meant to be staffed by eight. Emergency medical requests from inmates were ...

An Omaha man was sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for distributing photos and videos of children and infants being sexually abused in a case called “one of the worst” by a federal judge.

Robert Badgerow has always been a problem. He was creepy and violent in the years before he raped and murdered Diane Werendowicz.

A 36-year-old Lincoln man was sentenced to prison Thursday for assaulting a teenage girl who later gave birth to his child. Terence Conner received 70 to 90 years in prison after being found ...

Two men got federal prison time Thursday for a string of organized break-ins at small-town pharmacies in Nebraska targeting the businesses' prescription drugs. U.S. District Judge Susan Bazis ...

ELKTON — A man serving a 60-year prison term for his role in the November 2009 murder of a 40-year-old woman during a home-invasion-style armed robbery near Chesapeake City is seeking a plea ...