The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled execution for a 2001 killing of a friend found dead in her burning car.

Marion County Resident Circuit Court Judge Mark Stedelin has overturned the murder conviction of Ricky Norwood of Centralia ...

The federal civil rights complaints alleged First Amendment violations and retaliation. The Department of Corrections did not ...

Former reporter Mike Schilling recalls his Springfield prison interview with activist Leonard Peltier, whose sentence was commuted by Joe Biden.

Bove previously issued a memo ordering federal prosecutors to investigate officials from sanctuary jurisdictions if they ...

The Tribune spoke with Nicole Hallett, a clinical law professor at University of Chicago, and Diana Rashid, managing attorney ...

With the impeding retirement of Marion County Sheriff's Maj. Clint Bowen as head of the jail, Sheriff Billy Woods has selected Charles McIntosh as the new leader of the facility. Bowen, elevated to ...

The death row inmate was convicted of murder in 2002 and is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Friday.

San Diego County’s Board of Supervisors, for example, recently voted to forbid local law enforcement from aiding federal immigration ... and five years in prison per immigrant involved.

FAIRMONT — Austin Mullins' trial connected to the Henry Silver Pagan's murder case finally got underway Wednesday afternoon. Frequent interruptions and delays marked Mullins' first day of trial.