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Prosecutors say President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer was returned to prison because he refused to sign an agreement describing terms of his home confinement, not because he planned to publish a book critical of Trump

Prosecutors say President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer was returned to prison because he refused to sign an agreement describing terms of his home confinement, not because he planned to publish a book critical of Trump.

A former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputy accused of shooting and killing a mentally ill man who had escaped custody outside the downtown jail in May has been charged with second-degree murder, the San Diego District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday.

Inmate releases have begun at Cook County Jail as officials look to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. NBC 5’s Christian Farr has the story.

Health experts say prisons and jails are considered a potential epicenter for America’s coronavirus pandemic.

Inmate releases have begun at Cook County Jail as officials look to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. The hearings started this week and have been held in six courtrooms inside the Leighton Criminal Courts Building. The inmates potentially eligible for release had to fit a defined set of criteria. Those accused of non-violent offenses, elderly inmates, pregnant inmates,…

Mayor Bill de Blasio says officials are reviewing 200 inmates that could be released from New York City’s Rikers Island due to the spread of COVID-19. The announcement comes one day after officials revealed that more than three dozen inmates and employees had tested positive on Rikers Island. De Blasio said 23 inmates over 50 years old and at “low…

Coronavirus has become a “get out of jail” card for hundreds of low-level inmates across the country

A 24-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail for posting on social media a video last August of himself removing an ice cream container from a Texas market freezer, licking the contents and returning the container to the freezer. D’Adrien Anderson, 24, also was sentenced to an additional six-month jail term probated for two years and ordered…

A lawsuit filed by prosecutors in the Virgin Islands says multimillionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein used two private islands in the U.S. territory to engage in a nearly two-decade conspiracy to traffic and abuse girls. At one point, the suit filed Wednesday alleges, Epstein and associates organized a search party to catch a 15-year-old victim trying to swim away,...

Authorities in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday announced the arrest of an 11th suspect in the attempted killing of former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz. An official identified the suspect as Franklin Junior Meran. The official, who agreed to disclose the information only if not quoted by name because they weren’t authorized to discuss the case publicly, told The...

Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz has been upgraded to “good” condition as he continues to recover from his shooting last week in the Dominican Republic, according to his wife. “This morning, David’s condition was upgraded to ‘good’ by his doctors and he continues to make progress with his recovery in the Intensive Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital,” Tiffany...

Authorities in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday announced the arrest of an 11th suspect in the attempted killing of former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz. An official identified the suspect as Franklin Junior Meran. The official, who agreed to disclose the information only if not quoted by name because they weren’t authorized to discuss the case publicly, told The...

A jail in Canada that’s been closed for decades is getting a second life thanks to a creative entrepreneur. The owner will begin listing individual cells on Airbnb at the end of June.

Defense attorneys told the (Ashtabula) Star Beacon on Monday that the couple’s discipline of the children went too far but said the home wasn’t a “house of horrors.” They had sought probation for the couple....
Ashtabula County Prosecutor Nick Iarocci called living conditions in the Dorset Township home “deplorable.”...
Authorities removed three of the children from the home in 2013 after the...

A Florida doctor charged with corruption alongside New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was sent back to jail for another two weeks Monday as a judge tried to ensure he couldn’t flee if released on bond.

An convicted killer who escaped from a Kankakee jail facility earlier this week and was captured in Chicago following a three-day manhunt was ordered held without bail Saturday.

Kamron Taylor, a convicted killer who escaped from a Kankakee jail earlier this week, was caught in Chicago late Friday night. NBC 5’s Katie Kim reports.

Police gathered on a residential street in Kankakee Wednesday morning in a possible barricade situation after they found the car a jail inmate used to escape earlier that day.

The new school year began with a trip to jail for a Florida 14-year-old whose mother called police to report that he was refusing to go to class.