If convicted, the 19-year-old faces up to 5 years in prison and could be ordered to pay restitution for the hoax.

Some 37 prisoners who were jailed for breaching restraining orders have been incorrectly let out after their offences were ...

Though Sean "Diddy" Combs' lawyer insisted the star is not suicidal while locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in ...

An inmate at a high security jail has received a further sentence as a “dangerous offender” after a scalding water attack on a fellow prisoner.

Californians will decide the fate of Proposition 36, a state ballot measure that seeks to increase punishments for some theft ...

The Kentucky sheriff of a small Appalachian county who is accused of walking into a judge's chambers and fatally shooting him pleaded not guilty to a murder charge on Wednesday.

After an appeals court determined her original prison sentence was miscalculated, a judge resentenced Julie Chrisley to the ...