Middling horror spoof "The Halfway House" has the right ingredients -- cult queen Mary Woronov as an evil nun, ridiculous rubber monster-in-basement, a deadpan approach to serving up the usual ...

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) was one of the main advocates for the First Step Act, non-partisan legislation meant to reduce prison populations. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has been sending ...

Many federal inmates complete their sentences on home confinement for up to 6 months. Citing budget constraints, the BOP is cutting the program and making inmates stay in expensive, run-down ...

HOUSTON The kidnapping of Leah Henry and the murder of Good Samaritan Sam Irick were both crimes that shocked the Houston area. But both cases have something else in common. The men accused of both ...

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