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By Teddy Kulmala Officials on Tuesday released more information about how seven inmates were killed during a riot at Lee Correctional Institution earlier this month. According to Lee County Coroner Larry Logan, all seven died from exsanguination (severe blood los...

By CNN Meek Mill has been released from prison. After spending nearly five months incarcerated after a controversial sentence for violating probation, the Philadelphia rapper was out and en route to a basketball game on Tuesday evening. The Pennsylvania Supreme C...

Cocaine smuggler chastised by judge for social media lifestyle A Canadian woman, who has been dubbed “cocaine babe” by the media, has been sentenced to a maximum of eight years in prison for smuggling suitcases of drugs into Australia. Melina Roberge, 24, was arrested in 201...

By Miami Herald Early Sunday morning, chaos and violence erupted in one Vero Beach household. According to a police report provided by the Indian River County Sheriff's Office, at around 3:15 a.m. deputies responded to a disturbance call and discovered a distraug...

By Jeffrey Collins and Christina Myers - Associate Press COLUMBIA, S.C. –  Inmates armed with homemade knives fought each other for about seven hours over territory and money, leaving seven of them dead in the worst U.S. prison riot in a quarter-cent...

By Assoicated Press A suburban Denver man who pleaded guilty to killing his 3-month-old daughter has been sentenced to 28 years in prison. The Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office says 22-year-old Josiah Jones was sentenced Tuesday for the death of Naomi J...

By Jacques Billeaud The founders of Backpage.com and five others at the classified site have been indicted on federal charges in what authorities say was a scheme to facilitate prostitution by running ads for sexual services and hiding their revenues. An indictme...

By Nicole Darrah A family in Colorado is outraged after two men, who were accused of gang-raping a 13-year-old girl with their brothers and cousins, were only sentenced to probation. Tommy Williams, 20, and Clarence Williams, 19, were each sentenced on Tuesday to...

By Marty Roney, Montgomery Advertiser A teenager tried as an adult under Alabama's accomplice liability law was sentenced to 65 years in prison Thursday after rejecting an earlier plea deal that recommended 25 years. In a two-day trial in March, Lakeith Smith, no...