In a fact-finding mission spurred by rumors of abuse and self-burnings at a Virginia supermax prison, a Richmond legislator toured the facility firsthand this week, renewing calls for oversight.

Ireland and Scotland are braced for a storm spiraling in from the Atlantic, bringing gusts of up to 100 m.p.h., with ...

Michel Bérrios left the United States a few days before the new year, giving President-elect Donald Trump's campaign for mass ...

Beginning adventures in My Prison, players must build their prison almost from scratch by hiring workers, expanding the territory, constructing new buildings, and filling cells with new criminals.

Mr Justice Conor Dignam was not satisfied Trevor Knowles proved that Mountjoy Prison, the Irish Prison Service and the Minister for Justice were liable for his injuries. Join the Irish Independent ...

The nurse charged with abusing a newborn at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital will remain in the county’s jail. Judge S.L. Williams Jr. on Monday denied bond for Erin Strotman, 26, who is charged with ...

Judge Martin Honigberg presides over the sentencing of former police chief Andrew Wood, who was sentenced to 12 months in the state prison, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay a fine of ...

The former chief of the Hancock Police Department will avoid jail time for repeatedly claiming to have been working in Hancock and Richmond simultaneously, according to terms of a plea agreement ...

Gardaí have confirmed that on-the-run prisoner Keith Macken is back behind bars following his escape from custody in Dublin on Saturday ... and returned to the prison authorities.” ...

Photo: Collins Courts A drunken air passenger whose unruly behaviour forced a New York-bound flight to divert and land in Dublin has been spared jail and ordered to make compensation and charity ...

“James McGonagle attempted to abduct a 5-year-old child as the victim and his family walked down a Richmond Hill street ... McGonagle to seven years in prison on Friday, Jan.