To avoid a trial and potential conviction, Obagi must give up his license to practice law in California, among other steps.

Five inmates at the Central Maryland Correctional Facility in Sykesville have been convicted in two separate stabbings at the ...

In Florida, and across the nation, most of the operations are shrouded in mystery, providing no clear account of how many ...

One month into the 89th legislative session, all Texas lawmakers have been assigned to committees. All bills must be ...

The House passed a bill Thursday that would direct the state Department of Health to conduct a sweeping review of the medical ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

Brooks wasn’t able to join the “second-chance club,” as his father called it, after corrections officers violently beat him ...

A Texas man who murdered his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison ...

Jim Guy Tucker, whose tumultuous 30-year career in politics included terms as a prosecuting attorney, attorney general, ...