James Stanley Weems Jr, a retired police chief in Baltimore, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday, April 14, for ...

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Erik and Lyle Menendez were 19 and 22 years old when they were arrested on murder charges in the killings of their parents.

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The Justice Department said Anthony Zigler is part of the AVLN gang and stabbed a fellow inmate at a Michigan jail to ...

A French court sentenced eight people for smuggling eel larvae in a scheme worth over $2 million that prosecutors likened to ...

Lawmakers are pursuing legislative changes that would keep more people locked up in overcrowded county jails while awaiting ...

The law requires judges to give both minimum and maximum prison sentences for serious felony convictions. A person is supposed to be released at the end of the minimum sentence, but they can be held ...