NEW YORK (AP) — A former Goldman Sachs banker was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison for his role in a $4.5 billion scheme to ransack a Malaysian state investment fund.

Catch up with these local stories from WTTW News Leighton Criminal Court Building (Michael Izquierdo / WTTW News) Abdul “Malik” Muhammad sat in Menard Correctional Center in disbelief. It was 2006 and ...

An exhibition featuring work from incarcerated artists highlights links between environmental and climate injustice and the prison system.

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Britain is considering mandating the use of chemical castration for sex offenders under an overhaul of the justice system aimed at freeing up more space in its ...

Prosecutors on Tuesday charged an 18-year-old man with the murder of a teenage girl over the weekend in O'Fallon, Illinois ... That deserves life in prison to me." "Honestly, I want her back ...

(KFSN) -- An alarming medical situation at Federal Correctional Institution Mendota ... have happened in Southern California and in Illinois, where 17 officers went to the hospital after an ...

SIX. AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION IS LAUNCHED AFTER THE DEATH OF AN INMATE AT METRO CORRECTIONS. THE MAN WAS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN HIS CELL THIS MORNING AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ABOUT 30 MINUTES LATER.

Two months ago this week, the U.S. government flew hundreds of Venezuelans to a Salvadoran prison notorious for torture. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says their imprisonment relays ...

The family of a woman who died inside the Waseca Federal Prison has filed a lawsuit. 36-year-old Starsha Silva died after being found unresponsive in her cell in May of 2023. In the lawsuit ...

The New Orleans prison worker who was arrested for allegedly helping 10 violent inmates break out last week claimed one of the prisoners threatened to “shank” him if he didn’t assist them.

A Rockview state prison corrections officer trainee was charged Thursday after investigators said he attempted to smuggle synthetic cannabis compounds and a prescribed opioid medicine into the ...

Two males, a 19-year-old and a juvenile, have been charged for this attack. A 19-year-old woman was physically attacked and called "derogatory" names at a McDonald's in Illinois, with two males ...