Prison News

Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett, seen in Decatur,Ala.., in this Aug. 29, 2008, file photo, was taken into custody by federal marshals,Wednesday, Jan.

Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday it would be a mistake for President-elect Barack Obama to scrap the Bush administration's terrorist-fighting policies designed to prevent future attacks on the U.S. "It ...

The global economic crisis has made fears of unemployment the No. 1 concern, surpassing worries about poverty, social inequality, crime and violence, a 22-nation survey showed on Thursday.

As the only prisoner of war held on U.S. soil, inmate No. 38699-079 gets annual visits from the Red Cross and can wear his military uniform and insignia when he goes to court.

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff and his wife sent at least 16 watches, a jade necklace and a diamond bracelet to family and relatives, proving he will continue to dissipate what little is left from his $50 ...

Two top leaders of the controversial polygamous sect in Bountiful, B.C., have been arrested and charged with practising polygamy.

Computer hacking is rapidly evolving around the world as a tool of war. Cyber attacks pose the greatest threat to the United States after nuclear war and weapons of mass destruction, and they are increasingly ...

LONG DEPLOYMENT... A GROUP OF NEW MEXICO NATIONAL GUARDSMEN IS SET TO COME HOME FROM GUANTANAMO BAY IN JUST TWO DAYS.

Five former Blackwater Worldwide security guards pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal manslaughter and gun charges resulting from a 2007 shooting in a crowded Baghdad square that killed 17 Iraqi civilians and ...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney for fugitive movie director Roman Polanski is seeking to have the Los Angeles County Superior Court removed from his notorious sex case, accusing the court on Monday of bias and ...

A federal judge has accused the Bush administration of hiding evidence in the case of a Yemen man who has been held as a terror suspect at Guantanamo Bay for six years.

New Jersey's highest court is grappling with one of the thorniest issues facing criminal justice today: what to do in cases where witnesses to a crime have been threatened or intimidated by defendants to the point where they refuse to testify in court.

The issue is a pressing one in areas where intimidation by gang members, drug dealers and other defendants is making potential witnesses afraid they or their loved ones will be harmed or killed if they take the stand.

The state Supreme Court in Trenton heard nearly two hours of arguments Monday on a case that deals with what the state Attorney General's Office calls 'the greatest threat' to prosecution in gang, organized crime and domestic violence cases.

Barack Obama's appointed successor declared Tuesday he's qualified to take a seat in the Senate and said he'll go to Capitol Hill to do just that.

'I'm presenting myself as the legally appointed senator from the state of Illinois. It is my hope and prayer that they recognize that the appointment is legal,' Roland Burris said in a nationally broadcast interview just hours before the Senate convenes with the start of the 111th Congress.

Burris dismissed the Senate Democratic leadership's position that he cannot be seated because he was appointed by a governor accused in a criminal complaint of trying to benefit financially from his authority to fill the seat that Obama vacated after winning the presidential election.

U.S. prosecutors asked a judge to jail accused swindler Bernard Madoff on Monday, saying he sent jewelry and other items worth more than $1 million to family and friends in violation of his bail.

Hoping to prevent convicts from being shut out of the work force, some major U.S. cities are eliminating questions from their job applications that ask whether prospective employees have ever been convicted of ...

A judge has ordered an Illinois prison inmate who killed his cellmate -- after allegedly warning guards he would harm the man -- to pay $13 million to the dead inmate's estate and his mother.

A teenager has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for killing a suburban New York security guard who tried to break up some Halloween mischief.

The U.N.'s torture investigator is urging more countries to take in Guantanamo prisoners once the U.S.-run prison in eastern Cuba closes.

Manfred Nowak told Austrian radio more nations need to show 'solidarity' with the incoming government of President-elect Barack Obama, who has vowed to shut Guantanamo once he takes office.

Nowak says most of the roughly 200 inmates still held there were arrested simply because they were 'in the wrong place at the wrong time.' He says the overwhelming majority had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks.

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has put forth his first order of business for 2009.

A Dubuque attorney accused of holding his common-law wife prisoner and beating her has now been charged with violating a protection order for allegedly calling the woman 17 times from jail.