Hope is not a soft word in prison. It shapes how people cope with their sentence and it determines whether - and how - they ...

Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs plan to appeal his federal conviction and prison sentence. Diddy, 55, was sentenced to just over four years in federal prison on Friday, October 3, after he was ...

County justice officials and state legislators say sentence computation reviews resulted in ‘time-served credit’ being applied incorrectly; two sex offenders and a drunk driver released earlier than ...

Donna Adelson, the 75-year-old matriarch of the South Florida family behind the 2014 murder-for-hire of Dan Markel, was sentenced to life in prison in a Tallahassee courtroom. State Attorney Jack ...

Across history, courts have handed down extraordinarily long prison sentences—some so extreme that they stretch far beyond a human lifespan. These sentences are often symbolic, meant to reflect the ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif — In 2002, a San Bernardino criminal judge sentenced a Black man to 35 years to life for reaching into an open car window and snatching a purse from the front seat. The man, ...

The prospect of facing incarceration for the rest of one's natural life forces an individual to find hope, one researcher ...