Michigan has a sentencing problem. According to the Council on Criminal Justice, Michigan’s average prison sentence length is ...

GEO Group entered into a contract for the "immediate activation" of the North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A former elementary-school custodian at Forest Hills Public Schools was sentenced to 12 years in prison ...

The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, devastated the Midwest 100 years ago, killing 695 and injuring over ...

A lawsuit filed against the City of Jackson for a development deal that fell through will continue. Here is that headline and ...

PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) Daeshun Ruffin had 20 points in Jackson State's 76-69 victory over UAPB on Thursday. Ruffin went 8 of 15 from the field (2 for 3 from 3-point range) for the Tigers (13-17 ...

The NJSIAA individual wrestling championships got started Thursday at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City with 32 wrestlers competing in each weight class. Here are the full results from the boys ...

Something stood out to Cindy Ngamba as she glanced around when Friday's all-female boxing event was first announced. So many world championship belts. Ngamba wants one of her own. "I saw Natasha Jonas ...

a St. Louis resident is taking St. Louis Sheriff Alfred Montgomery to court. The latest lawsuit comes from the acting Commissioner of Corrections, Tammy Ross. She is suing Montgomery, accusing him of ...

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier justice in the Old West. In modern times, some consider it a more humane ...

Patrick Civitello, 19, of Schenectady, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in Albany federal court on Tuesday, March 4, after admitting he punched and kicked the teen in a restaurant parking lot in ...

A man accused of shooting a Chipotle worker because he was upset about his guacamole portion will now serve prison time, according to Michigan officials and news reports. Aaron Brown, who in ...