Atlanta rapper YFN Lucci, who pleaded guilty to a gang charge last year, was released from prison Friday, Georgia Department of Correction officials confirmed.

A Paulding County Superior Court judge sentenced a man to 475 years in prison for more than 100 dog fighting and animal cruelty charges.

Coroner Dontrelle Andrews said that both men were found dead after separate fights in the prison around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, but the GDC said one was uninjured.

Two prisoners at Hancock State Prison died and another was seriously injured Thursday after an altercation among inmates, the Georgia Department of Corrections has confirmed. One of the prisoners was ...

ATLANTA — State prisons chief Tyrone Oliver asked Georgia lawmakers Monday for $10.4 million to hire an additional 330 correctional officers during this fiscal year to staff a prisons system the ...

More than 2,200 people were detained after Venezuela’s July presidential election, when civil unrest broke out over Maduro’s ...

A primary target of the blitz of Trump administration immigration raids is an emerging organized crime group from Venezuela.

A man convicted of defrauding both former NBA All-Star Dwight Howard and Howard’s former Houston Rockets teammate, Chandler ...

YFN Lucci is officially a free man after serving nearly four years in prison. According to Channel 2 Action News, the Georgia Department of Corrections confirmed that the Atlanta rapper, born Rayshawn ...

Aaron Ortiz-Santos, an Atlanta-based lawyer who specializes ... include what appears to be an IDOC internal order telling state prison workers not to assist federal authorities in any immigration ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A gunman who shot and wounded three people at a busy food court in the heart of downtown Atlanta in June has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Jeremy Malone on Friday pleaded ...

Both cases are part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched by the DOJ in May 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.