It is hard to think of anything better for desert than key lime pie, but maybe $40,000 would do the trick. That was dessert in the "gifting tables' that Jill Platt and Donna Bello were involved in. Ms ...

A “computation issue” has allowed more than 3,200 prisoners in Washington state to be released early, the governor’s office said today. Washington Gov. Jay ...

BOSTON — The state prisons department is overhauling the system it uses for tracking sentences following revelations that 14 inmates were confined even after their sentences had been completed, ...

A complicated and confusing sentence calculation facilitated the release of a double murderer from prison last week, raising concerns for prosecutors who say the prison system’s reading of a court ...

As both the U.S. Department of Justice and federal judges blast Louisiana's Department of Corrections for holding inmates after they are done serving their sentence, Louisiana auditors have found the ...

The state agency that oversees Louisiana's prisons has failed to properly track inmate release dates, a just-released legislative audit says. The legislative audit report describes what auditors say ...