Authorities say an area sex offender will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced to hundreds of years in prison.Corey Dean Harris made hea ...

A prison advocacy group is suing Jefferson County officials over claims the jail is censoring books and magazines sent to ...

A Louisiana man was sentenced to 32 years in prison on Thursday for conspiracy to commit murder in connection with a Lone ...

The inmate's attorneys say he shouldn’t be in the state’s prison system at all, despite admitting guilt to slaying a woman in ...

The average age for people in a state prison is 41.7 years ... followed by 16 deaths at the Jefferson City Correctional Center, which holds about 1,700. There were no inmate deaths at the ...

The area manager of a local restaurant was sentenced to probation Thursday in Douglas County District Court for his role in ...

After an exceptionally lethal year at the prison, the warden was forced out, but families are still awaiting answers on the ...

A Pray woman who killed a Canadian cyclist near Clancy and fled the scene was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison with ...

Republicans and Democrats alike are promoting anti-crime initiatives as a new year of lawmaking gets underway.

Maximum security housing units at the Jefferson City Correctional Center ... The average age for people in a state prison is 41.7 years, compared to the state average age of 38.8. The share ...

Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate set to be killed in the state's first execution of 2025 are arguing that he actually ...