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By Andy Campbell A former Ohio judge who served time in prison for brutally attacking his then-wife was arrested Saturday after she was found stabbed to death. Lance Mason, 51 ― who had pleaded guilty to felonious assault in 2015 after punching Aisha Fraser Mason repeatedly ...

By Barney Lerten Two jail work-crew inmates who stole a Deschutes County Sheriffs Office ATV and rammed through a gate to escape the agency's animal rescue ranch east of Bend had gotten drunk on hand sanitizer before taking off, prompting a manhunt and their eventual captur...

By Madeline St. Amour  A Longmont man accused of hitting and strangling his girlfriend after she tried to break up with him is facing first-degree assault charges, among others. Nicholas Rueckert, 40, was arrested Monday on suspicion of first- and second-degree a...

By David K. Li Nikolas Cruz, the man accused of killing more than a dozen of his former classmates at a Florida high school, is facing new charges for attacking a jail guard, authorities said Wednesday. Cruz, 20, has been charged with two counts of aggravated ass...

By Nicholas Fandos and Maggie Haberman November 14, 2018 WASHINGTON — President Trump was expected to lend his support to a substantial rewrite of the nation’s prison and sentencing laws at an event at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, but opponents o...

Voting Rights for felons restored for 1.4 million Veteran wide receiver Anquan Boldin and other players celebrated a ballot initiative win in Florida on Tuesday November 7, 2018 By Eric Adelson - Yahoo Sports -  ORLANDO, Fla. — The social ju...

Amendment 4 required 60 percent approval to pass. November 7, 2018 Florida voters during Tuesday’s midterm elections approved Amendment 4, automatically restoring voting rights in the state for people previously convicted of felonies. Florida’s Amendme...

BY SANYA MANSOOR November 01, 2018 Four years ago, Harold Hempstead stunned the Florida prison system — and unleashed a major scandal — when he described to the Miami Herald how officers at Dade Correctional Institution had locked an inmate in a small, rigged shower room, turned the water on...

November 2, 2018 By Sarah Macaraeg Every day in Memphis, more than 5,000 people, on average, spend their hours locked up inside one of four Shelby County facilities, according to figures provided by county officials. More than half are pretrial detainees, held behind bars be...