Tennessee lawmakers may create a family advisory board to hear prison safety complaints amid concerns about extortion and inmate deaths.

North Carolina’s parole commission is reexamining the more than four decades‑old rape conviction of Lexington inmate Charles McNeair, who has repeatedly maintained his innocence and is once again bein ...

A Fairview man pleaded guilty to incest March 16 after he allegedly coerced a family member into being a surrogate mother, court records show.

A wrong turn near Fort Bragg led to ICE custody and transfer to Georgia, advocates say similar stops are rising across NC.

A Florida man is scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the rape and murder of a young mother who frantically called 911 on her ...

But across the Bull City and the larger rap community, word of the death of a local rapper spread within hours of the double ...

Demond-Depree Bluntson, convicted of killing his two children in a Laredo hotel, was sentenced to life without parole after ...

Ex-Boston teacher faces 10 years in federal prison for child exploitation: ‘Engaged in sexualized conversations with the minors while he was at school’ ...

Seven Delaware County prison inmates have been charged with attacking a fellow inmate in his cell after a family member ...

A former Boston teacher has been sentenced to federal prison for using social media to exchange nude photos with teen girls across the United States, United Kingdom and Canada and having graphic ...

WAYNE COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction says it does not suspect foul play after an inmate died at an eastern Carolina prison. Officials say inmate Malik Hood ...

A Wrightsville Beach man charged in the attempted kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl in downtown Wilmington has pleaded guilty.