The Department of Health and Human Services has mandated that Vance County reduce the jail population from 148 to just 20 ...

Paul Scott, who murdered Boca Raton florist James Alessi, was sentenced to death in 1979. He has survived five death warrants ...

Holding DPHHS inmates cost the county $200,625 for sentenced inmates, $471,750 for inmates awaiting evaluation and $136,375 ...

Many of the world’s largest shipping nations will decide Friday whether to impose a tax on carbon emissions from ships.

The decision follows legal guidance from Cascade County Attorney Josh Racki and a review of conflicting provisions in Montana ...

SOMERSET, Pa. – Paul Jawon Kendrick was sentenced to death Thursday for an SCI- Somerset corrections sergeant’s 2018 murder. Kendrick, 30, showed no emotion as a Somerset County jury of nine women and ...

The Cherokee County Sheriff, Steve Mueller, said his jail is bursting at its seams, housing over than 100 more inmates than ...

Hall County works to shake the “sanctuary” label that frustrates commissioners who say they are enforcing federal immigration ...

Convicted cop killers should never walk free. But New York's soft-on-crime parole board is poised to release its 44th cop ...

Officials in Somerset County are drawing attention to the need for an upgrade to the current Circuit Courthouse.

Over the years, law enforcement errors have allowed convicts and pre-trial detainees to walk free, with two such incidents happening in Clayton County in the past three years.

Saline County administrator Phillip Smith-Hanes is giving his greatest hits of the county government over the past year for ...