Virginia should expand higher education in prisons and jails as a public safety and workforce development strategy, the Justice Policy Institute’s Jasmine L. Tyler writes in a guest column.

It’s been six months since the state resumed control of the Lawrenceville Correctional Center. It was the only privately ...

A federal judge sentenced a Roanoke man to serve 19 years in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute.

A historic property in Fluvanna County and two in the city of ... were among 35 cultural institutions and historic sites across Virginia awarded nearly $20 million from the Virginia 250 ...

A West Virginia pharmacist who was convicted of poisoning her husband to death with insulin has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Cochran's husband, Michael Cochran, 38, died in ...

Two Virginia men got lengthy prison sentences on Monday related to the kidnapping and murder of a fellow gang member.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its anti-trans prison policy against three transgender women currently housed in women’s facilities at federal prisons.

I’m proof that Virginia’s earned sentence credit program works to rehabilitate offenders, JJ Joyner, who was incarcerated for 23 years, writes in a guest column.

Just over four years ago on the campaign trail, Joe Biden made a bold pledge to voters that as president he would end the federal use of private prisons – facilities where inmates have long ...

Richmond-based Spy Rock Real Estate submitted an application to the Chesterfield planning department to rezone the Midlothian ...