One of the people who escaped the Bibb County Jail in 2023 was sentenced Wednesday to serve eight years for possessing a ...

If Gov. Kemp's proposed state budget passes, hundreds of millions of dollars would go towards improving Georgia's prison ...

The Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative has provided prearrest diversion services to the city since it was founded in 2017.

Atlanta’s jail diversion program resumed services today, Jan. 6, after a months-long contract dispute with Mayor Andre Dickens’ office was resolved. Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative (PAD), ...

Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

MAPUTO, Mozambique. — (AP) — At least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in Mozambique's capital on Christmas Day after a rebellion, the country's police chief said, as ...

A wealthy gay couple who repeatedly molested their adopted sons have been sentenced to 100 years in prison ... in an affluent suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, of the pair sexually abusing their ...

Zachary and William Zulock received 100-year prison sentences without parole for multiple counts of child abuse and exploitation, ensuring they will remain incarcerated for life. Investigators ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Atlanta is a city with a lot going on—over half a million residents, a bustling metro area of nearly 6.2 million people and some ...

Frequently, hip-hop artists have found themselves on the wrong side of the law and are locked up in jail or have to serve a lengthy prison bid. XXL looks at over two dozen rappers who are in jail ...

Peter Thomas, formerly of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, has pled guilty to tax fraud, according to People, and has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. The ex-husband of former Real Housewife ...