Once again, the courts of Derby and Derbyshire have been busy in the last few weeks, with a variety of offenders facing justice for their crimes. At Derbyshire Live and the Derby Telegraph, we do our ...

A female prison guard was spared jail after admitting to a six-month affair with a prisoner at a south west jail. Cherrie-Ann Austin-Saddington, who worked as a guard at HMP The Verne in Dorset, had ...

A Cherokee County jury found 48-year-old Kelvin Demond Williams guilty of murdering his wife and attempting to murder her teenage son.

A bill that would have offered sentence adjustments for crimes committed when the offender was younger than 18 died in the ...

A female prison guard was spared jail even after admitting to a six-month long affair with a convicted rapist serving his ...

Nine people have been charged in a coordinated federal crackdown on benefit fraud schemes, according to the U.S. Dept. of ...

In movies and TV shows, prisons are the setting for crooks to serve out lengthy sentences. But in Sydney, a different story ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declared life sentences without parole for second-degree murder unconstitutional, ...

Michael Addison, who killed a police officer in 2006, argues his sentence cannot stand because the state abolished capital ...

Since protests began on December 28, more thousands of Iranians have been arrested for “crimes against the state,” and many ...

Will it be jail or house arrest for a former Windsor Police Service fleet manager who used his position of trust to defraud ...