Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TOLEDO — Former Allen County Sheriff Sam Crish, more than halfway through an 11-year federal prison sentence on charges of ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has a poor track record of medical care. A recent OIG report details the cruel treatment of one inmate that led to his early death.

Allowing prisoners to raise innocence claims as grounds for compassionate release would "supercharge" that kind of litigation, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ...

An aerial photograph of New York City's Chinatown neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. (Josh Russell/Courthouse News) MANHATTAN (CN) — David Thai, the convicted leader of a notorious Vietnamese street ...

Ahead of their back-to-back habeas corpus hearings set for the final week of May in Albany, GA, brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell remain in federal custody. Stewart, 66, and Michael, Food Safety ...

House Bill 150 would expand eligibility for medical release to include elderly and seriously ill incarcerated people who suffer from debilitating medical conditions, cognitive decline, or severe ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who had been serving life for second-degree murder died over the weekend, 12 days after being granted a medical transfer from prison to a facility that could ...

A watchdog has criticised a prison after a terminally-ill inmate who murdered his wife was released on compassionate grounds without the correct paperwork. Michael Tate, 83, died of lung cancer in a ...

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MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court is deliberating proposed reforms that would allow certain detainees to serve their ...