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A Texas drug dealer is back in prison a year after she was granted clemency by President Obama. Carol Denise Richardson, 49, was sentenced to 14 months in prison last week for violation the terms of her supervised release, according to the Department of Justice. Prosecutors say she com...

By Crimesider Staff   LAS VEGAS -- The former mixed martial arts fighter known as War Machine was sentenced Monday to 36 years to life in Nevada state prison for kidnapping, beating and sexually assaulting his porn actress ex-girlfriend and attacking her male friend at her L...

The headlines about the case of Ramad Chatman have been pretty sensational. This one, from the British paper The Independent, was typical: “Black man will spend six years in Georgia prison despite jury finding him ‘not guilty.'” [Note: No quotes needed around “...

JUPITER, Fla. -- Tiger Woods was arrested early Monday on a DUI charge in Jupiter, Florida, and spent nearly four hours in a county jail before he was released. Woods, the 14-time major champion who ranks second with his 79 career victories on the PGA Tour, has n...

A chef teaches pizza-making and life lessons in lock-up May 27, 2017 CHICAGO – How can you get a gourmet Italian pizza delivered right to your door for no more than $7? Get locked up at Cook County Jail in Chicago. Inmates in the jail’s medium-security Division 11...

Two nurses taken hostage after a Kane County inmate escaped his room at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital filed suit Thursday alleging the corrections deputy assigned to guard Tywon Salters left him unshackled, then ran and hid after the inmate took the officer's gun. I...

By Ryan Wilson Aaron Hernandez was found dead in his prison cell last month after hanging himself with a bedsheet. He was 27 years old and serving a life sentence for the murder of Odin Lloyd. Four years earlier, Hernandez was a member of the New England Patriots...

By Jeff Amy JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Christopher Epps once called himself the "tallest hog at the trough," but he was cut down to size Wednesday when a judge sentenced Mississippi's former corrections commissioner to nearly 20 years in prison for crimes connected to ...

By Karma Allen A convicted murderer was declared innocent and set free this week after spending more than two decades in a Pennsylvania prison. Shaurn Thomas, 43, was released from the State Correctional Institution in Frackville, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday afterno...