After spending 38 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit, 72-year-old Maurice Hastings received $25 million in the largest wrongful conviction settlement in California’s history. Though it’s ...

Celebrity helped the Menendez brothers get a shot at parole, but it also brought even more attention to them as they made a case for release.

JK ROWLING has launched a scathing attack on Emma Watson after the actress spoke about their transgender row in an interview.

Payet’s daring and meticulous planning allowed him to vanish in plain sight, making him one of the most audacious prison escapees in modern history. John Gerard, an Englishman from the early 17th ...

U.S. politics is filled with scandal, but it's not just politicians who have found themselves in legal trouble -- some of ...

It’s a lovely summery day in New York City and Woody Allen, 89, is sitting in his study at home while his wife of 27 years, ...

Carlos the Jackal was held in it, and it was also used as a place for guillotine executions - The latest information on his ...

The cell of notorious gangster Al Capone has been recreated to show the surprising luxury he enjoyed, complete with fine furnishings that stand in stark contrast to the bare accommodations of ordinary ...

According to a federal database of in-custody deaths obtained by The Marshall Project, nearly 4,000 people died in jails over ...