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The convicted murderer’s lengthy history of schizophrenia and delusions is well documented, from trying to call Jesus Christ as a trial witness to believing that prison dentists put a transmitter in his tooth.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Angela Savage will be forever 24.

A Queensland court hears that one of the religious group members accused of murdering the eight-year-old was "very excited to learn" that the child's mother was in prison for failing to obtain medical assistance for her daughter.

Advocates almost succeeded this year in curbing the use of solitary confinement in California’s prisons and jails. The California Mandela Act, named after the long-imprisoned South African president, received the support it needed in August to pass the Assembly 41-16 and land on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. He vetoed the…

Richard Pusey, who refused to attend a hearing over their use of graphic Eastern Freeway crash photos, has been carried naked from their prison cell to court.

Researchers say they have solved a decades-old riddle by finding remnants of the stockade and therefore the site of a prison camp in York, Pennsylvania, that housed British soldiers for nearly two years during the American Revolutionary War

Operation Hackney was one of the most extraordinary policing operations of the 1990s

A prison source said disgraced Maxwell will run every day and when she doesn't she will walk with one of her friends.

NEW YORK — A former United Nations official who drugged and raped unconscious women over two decades during humanitarian missions in the Middle East was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Thursday.

The latest infusion was among $874.6 million in “emergency” budget transfers requested by the Texas Legislative Budget Board, which is composed of GOP state leaders and budget writers.

One of five workers accused of sexually abusing inmates at a federal women’s prison in California has pleaded guilty and could face up to two years in prison