Michigan U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett had traveled to Cancun on Wednesday to press for Paul and Christy Akeo's release after a ...

A Michigan couple was released Thursday after spending nearly a month in a Mexican prison over a payment dispute with a ...

Supporters of the union, which represents 30,000 prison employees, fear the move will worsen an ongoing staffing crisis.

A Mexican national was given a two-year federal prison term for dealing large amounts of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine ...

A judge in Atlanta declined prosecutors' request to send the rapper Young Thug to prison. Prosecutors say the Grammy-winning ...

Lawmakers are pursuing legislative changes that would keep more people locked up in overcrowded county jails while awaiting ...

A Georgia businessman who scammed former NBA star Dwight Howard out of millions of dollars in a bogus scheme to buy the ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — A man will serve up to 20 years in prison for kidnapping a man and trying to hold him for ransom last year.

Jonathan Peterson, 41, received 42.75 additional years in prison after he pleaded guilty to ordering the murder of a police ...

Kevin B. Prasad, 38, was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus a 50 year determinate sentence for following and ...