In an innovative program at a jail in Athens, inmates face their past and are given more freedom. The goal? That they stop coming back.

A Georgia man was sentenced to over 10 years for a series of November 2023 bank robberies, using a gun and sometimes a ...

Georgia's Survivor Justice Act, which took effect on Tuesday, gives domestic violence survivors increased opportunities to ...

A Georgia man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempting to coerce a Mississippi minor to send sexually explicit ...

A federal judge sentenced the man to 10 years and 5 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release.

Ramirez Morris was sentenced to life in prison without parole for sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl, with his girlfriend ...

A correctional officer at a southeast Georgia prison was killed after he was assaulted with a "homemade weapon" by an inmate, state officials said Sunday. Robert Clark, 42, died at a hospital ...

OXFORD, Miss. (WCBI) – A Georgia man will spend the next 20 years in Federal prison for exploiting a Mississippi child.

Georgia’s troubled prison system has agreed to pay $2.2 million to the family of a transgender woman, whose threats of suicide were ignored and who was left hanging in her cell for several ...

At least 360 employees of Georgia's state prison system have been arrested on accusations of smuggling contraband into prisons since 2018, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, with 25 more ...

Four former correctional officers at a Georgia prison were sentenced Wednesday for their roles in the beating of a handcuffed inmate and the subsequent cover-up, federal prosecutors said. U.S ...