Henry Wirz, the commander of the infamous Andersonville prison, became the only Confederate officer executed for war crimes ...

He was the only Confederate officer executed for war crimes. His name was Henry Wirz — and the horrors he presided over at ...

They captured the city in 1864 after months of fighting and quickly went to work torching many of its buildings. After the war, Atlanta rebuilt rapidly and reclaimed its status as the pivotal city of ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County commissioners aren’t showing interest in building a new prison on a light industrial site at 17th Street and Margaret Avenue, as suggested this week by a local ...

A Shasta County jury found a Redding man guilty with connection to a robbery at Umpqua Bank, one of three such robberies that happened at banks in the fall of 2023 in the North Sate. Gregory Lee ...

The disgraced former New York congressman might be earning a longer prison sentence thanks to his sour social media posts, which prosecutors argue demonstrate a lack of remorse Meredith Kile is a ...

Just don’t give up. Never give up.” The inmates who had gathered in the prison’s recreation room at 8:30 a.m. spent the morning playing four official games of chess. The tournament ...

Senator Chris Van Hollen said that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia,who was deported and incarcerated in El Salvador, reported having been transferred after weeks in a maximum-security prison.

This noise is distracting to most, yet I use it to write operas from a prison cell. Nothing about me says “opera composer.” I’m Black. I’m 6 feet tall, 245 pounds, and I sport thicker-than-average ...

A Brazilian court has sentenced three executives behind the collapsed crypto scheme Braiscompany to a combined 171 years in prison, concluding one of the country’s largest crypto fraud cases to ...

A disbarred Somerset County attorney was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to taking investors money and spending it on personal expenses, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Thirty-one people involved in two large drug trafficking cases in Central New York have pleaded guilty and been sentenced to prison, the state Attorney General’s Office ...