HERE is a look back at some of the most shocking court cases the Star reported on in July. A man was given a short prison sentence for threatening to share an intimate photograph of a woman.

From stealing thousands of pounds from their grandmother's pension, to running over an elderly landlord's foot, these 14 individuals will serve ...

Bodyworn footage shows prison officers laughing and singing as an “inappropriate and disproportionate” restraint was carried out on an inmate moments before his death.

South Dakota's Project Prison Reset task force recommended a $650 million budget for a new men's prison in Sioux Falls, despite expert estimates of $725 million.

A Michigan doctor will serve four years in prison after being convicted in a $6.3 million Medicare fraud scheme in which she sent nearly 8,000 orthotic braces to more than 2,600 patients over a ...

Costa Rica’s $35M CACCO mega-prison bid, inspired by El Salvador’s CECOT, seeks to house 5,000 high-risk inmates and ease jail overcrowding.

R. Kelly's lawyers say he was hospitalized last week for a prison overdose after alleging a murder-for-hire plot against him.

On the same day that Shohei Ohtani will pitch in a major-league game for the first time since 2023, his former interpreter reported to federal prison in Pennsylvania, ESPN reported. Ippei Mizuhara ...

Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, reported to prison Monday to begin his 57-month sentence, his attorney, Michael Freedman, confirmed to The Athletic.

Prison workers' "lack of understanding" of how to manage diabetes or problems relating to it could have contributed to an inmate's suicide, a coroner said. Colin Lovett, 53, was found unresponsive ...

Former church pastor Scott Haught, 54, of Saginaw, was sentenced to serve up to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing two of his daughters.

Wealstun Prison guard Megann Gibson, 26, had phone sex with an inmate and flooded his mom with hundreds of messages to keep the illicit tryst going, a UK court has heard.