A new FBI report says violent crime in the United States fell 4.5% last year while property crime dropped 8% from the year ...

On Tuesday, a judge sentenced former Bridgeport Board of Education chair Jessica Martinez to "time served" for lying to a federal grand jury. She now plans to testify against former state Sen ...

Arizona’s first private prison is again owned by the company that built it in the mid-1990s and then sold it to the state in 2013 for $150,000.

Switching lanes in an intersection can be risky, but is it against state traffic laws? Here’s what GA law says about switching lanes in intersections.

Renamed the Red Rock Correctional Center, the prison is the largest in Oklahoma and was the last remaining privately operated facility used by the state.

On Saturday, Macon County coroner Eddie Hosley confirmed that a 40-year-old Macon State Prison inmate died earlier in the week. Here's what we currently know.

Oklahoma became the owner of the Lawton Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility, ending the state’s use of private prison contracts.

George Thacker’s family files a lawsuit claiming medical neglect caused his death at the Edgefield prison camp in South Carolina. Read more on the wrongful death case.

Evidence against commercial fisherman Don Rynn included video clips, witnesses in the commercial fishing business and experts testifying how overfishing certain species hurts everyone.

Inmates in New York State’s prisons will no longer have to pay for phone calls in a new policy initiative announced Tuesday. Under the plan, which goes into effect Aug. 1, phone calls made by… ...

Yet four months later, thousands of officer positions remain unfilled, and the state prison agency has struggled to resume normal operations, recent court records show.

Fewer babies are being born in Georgia and the effects are far reaching. What will happen to schools, jobs and the economy when the birthrates drop and the population ages?