North Carolina prisons have seen an uptick in suicides and people with mental health diagnoses among the ongoing use of ...

Erik Ramsey’s suicide in solitary confinement highlights rising mental illness and a jump in such deaths in North Carolina ...

James Johnson’s public defender, Amy Smith, argued during the sentencing that her client’s childhood trauma and untreated ...

An inmate at a California prison is being held in restrictive housing on suspicion of killing his cellmate Friday morning.

Some convicts may serve their sentences in mental health or medical care institutions instead of jail, under a draft law being reviewed by the Shura Council. The council’s Foreign Affairs, Defence and ...

A Warren man will serve three months in the Warren County Jail and one month electronic monitoring. Preston J. Beerbower, 22, of Warren, was sentenced last week by Judge Maureen Skerda in the Court of ...

Former fiancé pleaded to the actual abuse last week that she tried to cover up, saying now that, “It’s been a hard lesson to learn, but I definitely don’t want to get in trouble again.” ...

If a property owner agrees to grant a restrictive covenant for a specific purpose, can that covenant be kept on title if there is only a "remote” possibility of the specific purpose being fulfilled?

Cedric Herring was sentenced to life in prison, while Myrick received a 50-year sentence with the possibility of parole after 30 years. The convictions draw to a close a tragic chapter that began ...

Justice Barrow explained today that the court is obliged to give the least restrictive sentence possible in order for young offenders to rehabilitate and contribute to society in the future.