Best true-crime films and series of the year including docs on Diddy, Ruby Franke, Gabby Petito, the Long Island Serial ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2025 announced the closure of another prison, a shutdown that's possible because the state is incarcerating far fewer people than it did just a decade ago.

Nikki Entzel and Earl Howard were convicted in the slaying of Entzel's husband Chad. His body was discovered in January 2020 ...

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss' decision to pull the segment from Sunday's episode sparked criticism, including from the ...

If you’re too poor to afford a good lawyer in Houston’s Harris County Jail in Texas, the odds are sorely stacked against you. In misdemeanor cases, Harris County inmates plead guilty 84% of the time ...

It's Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive.

The new short film Criminal highlights the injustices of the criminal legal system with a look at how for-profit bail preys on the poor and mentally ill. We’re joined by three contributors to the film ...

From the outside, the Harris County Jail might be mistaken for a high-end condo, with walls of windows that overlook the bayou in downtown Houston. But the windows are fake, and the inmates ...

Robe Imbriano’s documentary short uses music and animation to illustrate the grave injustices taking place at Houston’s notorious jail and in the cash-bail system at large. is that it looks very ...

OPA-LOCKA, FLA. (WSVN) - Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies are seeking the public’s help in finding a murder suspect who was mistakenly released from jail after being convicted on a double murder ...

A class-action suit can proceed against Multnomah County, ex-Sheriff Mike Reese and two former corrections supervisors alleging they failed to protect prisoners from tear gas that seeped into the ...