Keith Daniel Freerksen, a registered sex offender from South Haven Township, Michigan, was sentenced to 20 years in prison ...

Controversy over a Kentucky Department of Corrections memo has led to new legislation surrounding the regulatory process and ...

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has gotten a jolt of momentum ...

Kentucky Senate Bill 2, filed by Republican Sen. Mike Wilson, aims to prevent the Department of Corrections from funding gender transition care for inmates. While Kentucky's Attorney General ...

Robinson, a fifth-year senior Kentucky basketball guard, had scored at least 10 points in six of his past eight games entering Saturday. But that’s where the numbers are misleading.

Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...

Lawmakers are discussing a bill that would limit the governor of Kentucky’s pardon ability. Senate Bill 126 would prevent the governor from granting pardons 30 days before an election until the next ...

Women at the California Institution for Women reported sexually abusive and “sadistic” behavior during gynecology exams ...

Kentucky Refugee Ministries, which operates three refugee resettlement offices in the state, receives 90% of its funding from federal grants.

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial.

It is illegal to deport American citizens from the U.S., regardless of if they've been convicted of a crime, and any attempt ...