Iowans and their elected officials are doing nothing to protect both prison employees and inmates from death. So please ...

Opinion: If Sutton is sent back to prison, it will be the failure of a justice system that refuses to follow its laws.

The independent review says successive governments made "knee jerk" decisions to issue longer prison sentences.

The Independent Sentencing Review said longer jail terms have been a ‘knee jerk’ policy response which has led to an ...

The writers urge Washington lawmakers to pass the Judicial Discretion Act, allowing judges to modify some prison sentences.

Strangulation is one of the more brutal crimes that happens across the Carolinas. Some say that the punishment does not fit ...

As the conversation meandered throughout the day, it occurred to me to get his thoughts on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ...

Figures shared with ITV News show, black knife offenders in London are twice as likely to be tagged compared to white people. | ITV News London ...

Despite terrorizing hundreds of fellow children, teens who make a violent threat usually get mental health treatment, not ...

The man who shot and killed schoolgirl Olivia Pratt-Korbel has been caught with drugs in his prison cell, it has been ...

Fentanyl trafficking, under existing law, can already be punished with life in prison, and sentences are often more than 10 ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.