The U.S. operates one of the largest and most punitive criminal justice systems in the world. On any given day, 1.9 million people are incarcerated in more than 6,000 federal, state and local ...

Harris County's criminal justice system hasn't given 31-year-old Dequavia Denise Rogers much of a reason to stop stealing.

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The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Josh Williams, R-Sylvania Township, characterized the changes as a way to give judges “a full ...

In 2018, Ronald Exantus, now 42, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for stabbing 6-year-old Logan Tipton to death in his ...

An inmate lays on a bed in a jail cell. The panel established by Gov. Mike Kehoe to write rules for how long people who break the law must stay in prison may be violating the law itself by meeting in ...

The state could be the first in the nation to use the Montana-based company Global Accountability’s technology for parole and probation monitoring.

The working group established by Gov. Mike Kehoe to look at the regulations governing parole has met twice since a public hearing in June. Neither the public nor the media was notified of either ...

A Los Angeles man faces murder and robbery charges after prosecutors say he lured men to meet for sex using the app Grindr, ...

The prominent Christchurch eye surgeon and partner of a district court judge jailed for attempting to murder his landlord has ...