States are moving to strengthen laws against human trafficking, but some advocates warn that federal funding cuts could ...

What keeps us from jailing the innocent and freeing the guilty? A little thing called due process; the government must follow established legal procedures when prosecuting crimes. People are ...

PUEBLO, Colo. — Former county clerk Tina Peters has been transferred from county jail to state prison to begin serving her eight-and-a-half-year sentence, even as President Donald Trump calls for her ...

The Trump administration again escalated its fight with the judiciary. In stunning remarks, White House Deputy Chief of Staff ...

John Hanson, convicted of a 1999 Tulsa murder, faces execution following the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board's clemency ...

A career offender with multiple prior convictions for crimes including a drug-related offense has been sentenced to 240 ...

Ozturk was suddenly arrested by plainclothes federal agents in March in an incident captured by a surveillance camera, but how only known activity was writing an op-ed for her student newspaper.

Texas, announced a bill that would create a federal option to pursue the death penalty for illegal aliens who murder.

Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem kicked off her Springfield visit Wednesday with a photo op at a federal facility as ...

A Coal Valley, Illinois woman was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison for using interstate facilities in a murder-for-hire.

The bill was amended to exempt visa-holders, but to give Gov. Greg Abbott power to bar other foreign citizens from purchasing property in Texas.

From people with no criminal records, claims of mistaken identity, to one person with a sex crime charge against a child: ...