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In rural Michigan, a prison is reopening as biggest ICE detention hub in Midwest
As the Trump administration tries to ramp up deportations, a Michigan county with 12,000 people will soon be home to an 1,800 ...
SoCal man who killed wife and tossed her severed legs in trash gets 15 years to life in prison
On Friday, a San Diego man was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for smothering his wife to death and tossing her ...
A notorious drug gang is in the crosshairs of a French police investigation of prison attacks
Anti-organized crime specialist investigators probing a wave of attacks on prisons and prison staff in France are looking at ...
Parents outraged by homey prison life for driver who killed their son: 'How is this justice?'
After losing their son to a texting driver, a Colorado family says the justice system protected the offender, not the victim.
Man sentenced to 53 years in prison in hate-crime attack on Palestinian-American boy, mother
An Illinois landlord found guilty of a vicious hate crime that left a 6-year-old Muslim boy dead and wounded his mother days ...
Notorious N.J. mobster — now ‘frail’ and 95 — gets out of prison
He was serving an 80-year prison sentence for a series of crimes, including plotting to kill New York mob boss John Gotti.
MS-13 member sentenced to 17 years after running fentanyl ring from Doral prison, feds say
Mario Clifford Rivera, who goes by the nickname “Chuky,” was operating the drug ring from the state prison in Doral.
Man convicted in killing of 6-year-old Palestinian American boy gets 53 years in prison
Joseph Czuba, the Illinois man convicted in the killing of 6-year-old Palestinian American Wadee Alfayoumi, has been ...
Youth prison inmates deal with rodents, no drinks or pillows, N.J. inspection report says
For example, more than 70% of the inmates had no pillow during the inspection dates, in July 2024. The ombudsperson ...
Second defendant sentenced to 32 years in Colorado prison in deadly rock-throwing case
The second of three defendants was sentenced in a Jefferson County courtroom to 32 years in a Colorado prison for his role in ...
He's serving life in prison for murder. But his DNA wasn't at the scene.
Prosecutors said Stephen Yarborough was sexually assaulted, then fatally stabbed in his Roxboro, North Carolina, home in 2007 ...
Pill-mill kingpin Jeff George freed from prison after judge reduces sentence for murder
Jeff and Chris George ran pill-mill operations that federal officials say earned more than $40 million and contributed to at ...