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It's tough losing to the Clippers, especially when you' re supposed to be on a championship team.

Former NBA star gets 5 days in jail after pleading guilty to DUI in Arizona.

The director of a maximum-security prison and two of his colleagues resigned Monday after two inmates escaped by helicopter.

A Guantanamo prisoner who claims he was tortured at a covert CIA site in Morocco returned to Britain a free man Monday after nearly seven years in U.S. captivity.

The financial crisis is forcing probation and parole agencies to reduce or drop prison time for thousands of offenders who violate ...

Leopold Wrobel, 51, was convicted of violating an antisocial behavior order directing him to cease whistling the tune at neighbors Michael and Kathleen Sharpe. Magistrates at a Chesterfield, England, court also found him guilty of two counts of harassment, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.

President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Monday he worried that detainees freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, Cuba, might resume attacks on the United States.

A man sentenced to life in prison for killing a woman in 1984 had his conviction overturned and was released Friday after spending 23 years behind bars.

The Obama administration intends to devise its own policies on how to handle existing and future terror detainees, but that hasn't stopped the world community from adding its two cents on the question

President Obama signed executive orders Thursday directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut what remains of its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantánamo detention camp within a year, government officials said.