In a quick but eventful year since his release, Majid Khan reunited with his wife, met his daughter who was born after his capture and added to his family with a baby son. “Life is a test,” said Majid ...

In 2010, a federal judge sentenced Tony DeJohn to life plus 10 years on a nonviolent marijuana charge. Because it was DeJohn’s third conviction, the judge was required by law to impose the maximum ...

More than two million adults in the United States are living in prison. Some stay for life, but many take that experience with them back to our communities. We report on arrests and sentences every ...

Josh Siegel is a former news editor for The Daily Signal. NEWBERRY, S.C.—He was never supposed to come back, but Douglas Lindsay is home now, 19 years later, where some things never change. “You’ll be ...

FARGO — Former prisoner Lenard Wells, who finds housing and jobs for other ex-offenders, doesn't want to leave any of those men behind. That's one of many mottos that the housing coordinator for the ...

A woman who spent 40 years behind bars for her husband’s 1984 murder has been released from prison just in time to spend Christmas with her family. Patty Prewitt, the longest-serving female prisoner ...

A prisoner took his own life after claiming he was locked in his cell for 23 hours a day and was not even let out to eat, a newly-published report has found. Lee Gorst was found hanged in his cell at ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A former prisoner has opened a barbershop called "Life Changing Cuts" in the Greenspoint area. "I always wanted to feel needed in life," explained Rueben Askew. Askew, who ...

A former judge and a current inmate believe that people who commit serious crimes under the age of 25 should have the chance to be released once they turn 50 rather than face a sentence of life in ...