At just 9 years old, Ava Najafi lost her mother to cancer and was left to navigate life with an alcoholic father. By 11, she had turned to smoking and drinking to cope. Three years later, her ...

Four prison guards involved in the death of an incarcerated Black man whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison last ...

Applause and cheers filled a courtroom Thursday afternoon after a federal judge granted a joint request from the territory and the U.S. Justice Department to terminate part of a 40-year-old consent ...

A Cree woman serving a life sentence in Nova Scotia was given an additional 12 months for unlawfully confining two prison ...

Calvin Duncan spent nearly 30 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Last week, he won the election for clerk of court in New Orleans Parish, a role he calls his dream job.

Neal Parham, 71, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole in 1975 after a botched robbery of ...

An inmate serving a life sentence for murder at Dade Correctional Institution attacked and repeatedly stabbed an officer at ...

Tavares Hutchinson was sentenced to life in prison in 2000 for a robbery he says he did not commit. About midnight Friday, ...

Prison sentences have shadowed some of reggae's biggest names. This is the story of global reggae icons who served time, and how it defined their music and legacy. Global reggae stars who released ...

"I am grateful to God to be here, to be home, to be safe and to be alive," Britt-Johnson said. Britt-Johnson shared an embrace among a group, she says, helped save her life. The south suburban woman ...

Trinette Britt-Johnson, 58, who underwent the operation last year, has been unable to access the critical medication NBC Chicago/YouTube A Chicago woman is stuck in Jamaica without life-saving kidney ...

A family in Cuba salvages belongings from the rubble of their home after it collapsed during Hurricane Melissa's passage through Santiago de Cuba on Wednesday. (Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images) After ...