After Byrd was killed, local, state and federal law enforcement agencies came together to solve the murder of one of their ...

A former deputy with the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office who worked there for nearly 11 years is scheduled for sentencing Oct. 1 for production of child pornography. Johnathan Andrew Edwards was ...

BOTTOM LINE: Where a man argued his Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his probation officer directed him to return ...

Whether you dismiss urban legends as children's lore or believe they're based on fact, these 50 tales will send a shiver up ...

A German man under investigation as a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann has been released after serving his sentence in an unrelated case. It’s the latest turn ...

Cellphones in the hands of inmates undermine order, compromise investigations and put lives at risk both inside and outside of prisons, an Oklahoma Department of Corrections official says.

Sheqweetta Vaughan, 32, was pronounced dead at Lee Arrendale State Prison on July 9, when it was 90 degrees in her cellblock.

Bobby Lee Moore, Jr., age 45, and Andre Trell Hamilton, age 43, were sentenced for conspiring to distribute and aiding and abetting one another to distribute ...

All together, the complaints paint a grim portrait of the experience at Logan Correctional Center, which has been dogged by ...

The Sheriff's Office is launching a study to see whether assigning jail deputies and corrections officers to work longer 10-hour or 12-hour shifts will improve scheduling for all staff.

Never-before-seen footage shows two Louisiana deputies punching an inmate more than 50 times during a jailhouse strip-search ...

A federal appeals court has ruled that a North Carolina law making it a crime for felony offenders to vote before completing their punishments without knowing they were breaking the law ...