A federal judge granted an order separating transgender inmates from female detainees at a Texas correctional facility for ...

The following article discusses sexual assault. For nearly a year and a half, Andrea Weiskircher has been pleading with ...

After almost a year without an official No. 2, Sheriff Gary Schuette promoted jail administrator Anthony Stewart on Nov. 10.

Advocates say we're the only state without a law requiring release of dying inmates in some circumstances, and will press the ...

Linda McLain reached the end of her two-year sentence at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in July, but it would ...

COVERT ACTION — “Kuhn might remain as corrections commissioner, leading Senate to delay her judicial confirmation hearing,” ...

The murder of a county district judge allegedly by a local sheriff unraveled allegations of a decades-long sex ring being ...

At 13.3%, Houston has the worst rate of young adults who are neither working nor in in school of the largest metro areas in the country.

SOMERS, Conn. (WFSB) - An investigation is underway after a correctional officer was assaulted by an inmate on Monday ...

Bulletin: ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 1 PM EST TUESDAY... * WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow and sleet accumulations between 2 and 5 inches ...

A Tennessee death row inmate who brutally murdered a Chattanooga State student in Brainerd almost 4 decades ago has ...