Calvin Duncan was 19 in 1982 when the police arrested him for a murder-robbery in New Orleans. The eyewitness testimony at his trial was unreliable, but Duncan's lawyer offered only a minimal defense, ...

Fried, convicted in a multi-billion-dollar cryptocurrency fraud, is reported to be serving as a “jailhouse lawyer” at the ...

An Arkansas Department of Corrections inmate who was transferred in June to a federal prison in West Virginia has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the director of the state's prison system ...

R. Kelly was hospitalized for an overdose after prison staff gave him "an amount of medicine that could have killed him" and was later forcibly removed from a hospital against medical advice, his ...

A former corporate lawyer from Scott Township has been sentenced to over 12.5 years in prison for dealing meth. James France, 62, will also have eight years of supervised release once he’s out of ...

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer said Friday that federal prison workers were fired for allegedly leaking her client's emails to Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin. Maxwell, associate of the late ...

Prison agency seeks to dramatically narrow solitary confinement law Prison officials are using a novel legal reading to argue that the HALT Solitary Confinement Act doesn’t apply to units where most ...