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WNBA star Maya Moore revealed Wednesday that she tied the knot with Jonathan Irons — a man she helped free from prison this year after a judge overturned his conviction.

More than 1,000 tainted cases were tallied in a new nationwide study by the registry that measures the role of government misconduct in wrongful convictions — and how that misconduct falls heaviest on Black exonerees. The study, published Tuesday, examined 2,400 cases from 1989 through February 2019 in which people were absolved of criminal convictions, and it found that 54...

A 77-year-old prison escapee who had been on the run for nearly half a century was captured this week at his home in New Mexico, the FBI said.

Tents were set up in the yard of San Quentin State Prison to treat inmates with COVID-19. At least 1,011 cases of the virus have been reported.

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and ‘fixer’ for President Donald Trump, was released two years early from prison over coronavirus concerns. He will serve the remainder of his three-year sentence at home.

The response from the federal Bureau of Prisons to the growing coronavirus crisis in prisons has raised alarm among advocates and lawmakers about whether the agency is doing enough to ensure the safety of the nearly 150,000 inmates serving time in federal facilities.

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

Now that Rod Blagojevich’s prison sentence has been commuted by President Donald Trump, the former Illinois governor will soon be free to go home to Chicago. But when? In short, he likely will leave prison on the same day his commutation papers were signed by Trump. NBC 5 has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to view the commutation….

Before Rod Blagojevich entered prison more than seven years ago, NBC 5’s Phil Rogers interviewed the former Illinois governor over lunch near the prison.

Nearly a decade into his life sentence for murder, Lydell Grant was escorted out of a Texas prison in November with his hands held high, free on bail, all thanks to DNA re-examined by a software program. “The last nine years, man, I felt like an animal in a cage,” Grant, embracing his mother and brother, told the crush of reporters...

A U.S. citizen who went on a hunger strike and who claimed he was wrongfully imprisoned in Egypt died on Monday after spending six years behind bars, the State Department said.

Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, was sentenced on Thursday to 47 months in prison for tax and bank fraud.

Long before notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger was killed at a federal prison in West Virginia, lawmakers, advocates and even prison guards had been sounding the alarm about dangerous conditions there.

President Trump commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson Wednesday after meeting with Kim Kardashian in the Oval Office last week. Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother, had served 22 years of a life sentence for a first time non-violent offense after being convicted of drug possession and money laundering. The commutation is different from a pardon in that it does not…

Rapper Meek Mill was sentenced Monday to two to four years in prison on probation violations.

The United States accused Syria on Monday of executing thousands of imprisoned political opponents and burning their bodies in a crematorium to hide the evidence. The allegation could test the Trump administration’s willingness to respond to atrocities, other than chemical weapons attacks, that it blames on President Bashar Assad’s government. The allegation of mass killings came as President Donald Trump...

Looks like “Gary from Chicago” has a bigger story than many watching the Oscars may have thought.

Visitors heading to Ohio for the Republican National Convention have the rare opportunity to rent the childhood home of one of the country’s most notorious killers.

When Michael Garvey returned from Afghanistan with a Purple Heart and painful injuries, he struggled with intense night sweats and post-traumatic stress disorder, among other issues. The firefight he survived left him with nerve damage to his leg and injuries to his stomach. Garvey tried therapy and medication to cope with the pain and loneliness. Then, after two years of...

The prison inmate who fatally beat renowned Wisconsin serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in 1994 has opened up about why he killed him.