Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new initiative into law enabling Illinois residents who’ve served sentences for nonviolent offenses ...

For the first time, a Georgia prisoner has been resentenced and released from custody under a new state law that considers ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Clean Slate Act into law Friday, which will automatically seal criminal records of nonviolent ...

A former inmate has warned controversial new Australian laws could have the unintended effect of turning young offenders into ...

Why the killings haven’t stopped, a push for better prison health care and Jackson moves closer to hiring a police chief.

Houston rapper OMB Bloodbath is on trial in federal court, accused of leading a gang and helping plan a deadly 2017 shooting.

CHICAGO — Over 1.7 million Illinois adults will be eligible to have their nonviolent criminal records automatically sealed ...

Hope is not a soft word in prison. It shapes how people cope with their sentence and it determines whether - and how - they ...

The Justice Department is once again at the center of the news, with investigations of federal lawmakers, the chairman of the ...