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Prosecutors say President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer was returned to prison because he refused to sign an agreement describing terms of his home confinement, not because he planned to publish a book critical of Trump

Prosecutors say President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer was returned to prison because he refused to sign an agreement describing terms of his home confinement, not because he planned to publish a book critical of Trump.

A former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputy accused of shooting and killing a mentally ill man who had escaped custody outside the downtown jail in May has been charged with second-degree murder, the San Diego District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday.

Health experts say prisons and jails are considered a potential epicenter for America’s coronavirus pandemic.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says officials are reviewing 200 inmates that could be released from New York City’s Rikers Island due to the spread of COVID-19. The announcement comes one day after officials revealed that more than three dozen inmates and employees had tested positive on Rikers Island. De Blasio said 23 inmates over 50 years old and at “low…

Coronavirus has become a “get out of jail” card for hundreds of low-level inmates across the country

A 24-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail for posting on social media a video last August of himself removing an ice cream container from a Texas market freezer, licking the contents and returning the container to the freezer. D’Adrien Anderson, 24, also was sentenced to an additional six-month jail term probated for two years and ordered…

A lawsuit filed by prosecutors in the Virgin Islands says multimillionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein used two private islands in the U.S. territory to engage in a nearly two-decade conspiracy to traffic and abuse girls. At one point, the suit filed Wednesday alleges, Epstein and associates organized a search party to catch a 15-year-old victim trying to swim away,...

A New Jersey mother who passed out while intoxicated and suffocated her toddler son is now headed to prison.

Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz has been upgraded to “good” condition as he continues to recover from his shooting last week in the Dominican Republic, according to his wife. “This morning, David’s condition was upgraded to ‘good’ by his doctors and he continues to make progress with his recovery in the Intensive Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital,” Tiffany...

Authorities in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday announced the arrest of an 11th suspect in the attempted killing of former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz. An official identified the suspect as Franklin Junior Meran. The official, who agreed to disclose the information only if not quoted by name because they weren’t authorized to discuss the case publicly, told The...

In an exclusive interview, NBC10’s Aundrea Cline-Thomas sits down with the father of two children who were drowned in a bathtub, allegedly by a woman who was a mother to one and the caretaker of another.

A New Jersey justice complex has sustained significant damage after an inmate flushed a jumpsuit down a toilet, causing the main sewer line to burst and flood the building.

A Roman Catholic priest in Pennsylvania caught with child pornography by someone helping with his computer is going to jail.

Colin Warner spent 21 years behind bars wrongly accused of murder. He and former Philadelphia Eagle Nnamdi Asomugha, the actor who portrays someone who helps Warner get out of prison in the new movie ‘Crown Heights,’ speak with NBC10’s Tracy Davidson.

A jail in Canada that’s been closed for decades is getting a second life thanks to a creative entrepreneur. The owner will begin listing individual cells on Airbnb at the end of June.

Wednesday was graduation day for three rescue dogs who were trained by inmates to serve as companions for veterans.

Allegheny County police are investigating the death of an inmate found hanged at the county jail in Pittsburgh.

Defense attorneys told the (Ashtabula) Star Beacon on Monday that the couple’s discipline of the children went too far but said the home wasn’t a “house of horrors.” They had sought probation for the couple....
Ashtabula County Prosecutor Nick Iarocci called living conditions in the Dorset Township home “deplorable.”...
Authorities removed three of the children from the home in 2013 after the...