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A federal judge sentenced former Massachusetts state Rep. David Nangle to 15 months in prison on Wednesday after the Lowell Democrat pleaded guilty earlier this year to illegally using campaign funds. He used the money to fund a lifestyle that included golf club memberships and casino trips to Connecticut and lying to banks about his debt to obtain mortgages and…

Mack is best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on the series “Smallville.”

Michael Coyne, NECN legal analyst, explains how Bill Cosby’s conviction was overturned and the “terrible” agreement that led to it.

Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups across the U.S., and nearly half still have not been caught

After Prince Philip’s death last week at age 99, politicians and world leaders rushed to eulogize his lifetime of service to his wife, Queen Elizabeth II, and to the British nation

Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died early Wednesday in a federal prison

Illinois has agreed to the early release of some low- to medium-risk inmates as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit over the coronavirus

A New York auction house is selling notorious mobster Whitey Bulger’s prison letters and pictures. We took a closer look at his words.

The outbreak of COVID-19 at the Vermont prison in Newport is continuing with 21 new cases, the Department of Corrections reported on Monday. Nineteen of the new cases are among inmates at the Northern Vermont Correctional Facility and two among staff members. There are currently 37 positive inmate cases and six positive staff cases at the facility. The department says…

Prison guards are refusing coronavirus vaccines at alarming rates

The NBC10 Investigators have learned the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance placed holds on unemployment benefits for around 1,700 people who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance during a period while they were apparently incarcerated.

Street artist Banksy has confirmed that he was behind an artwork that appeared on the red brick wall of a former prison in the English town of Reading.

Ex-NFL tight end Kellen Winslow II, who committed sexual offenses against five women in Northern San Diego County, is slated to be sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in state prison.

The coronavirus vaccine rollout in Massachusetts moves into the next step of Phase 1 on Monday. The next group includes congregate care settings like group homes, shelters and corrections facilities. “They are deserving of health care,” said jail doctor Alysse Wurcel. “Treating these people who are in jail and preventing COVID in them is going to benefit everyone.” Wurcel is…

Massachusetts will start vaccinating individuals living and working in congregate care facilities and prisons on Monday, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Wednesday. The facilities include residential congregate care programs, group homes, residential treatment programs, community-based acute residential treatment programs, clinical stabilization programs, homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters and veteran shelters. There are about 94,000 individuals who will be eligible to receive…

In prisons around the country, COVID-19 outbreaks have followed transfers of prisoners or prison workers.

“Full House” star Lori Loughlin has reported to a California federal prison to serve her two-month sentence for her part in the “Operation Varsity Blues” college admissions scam, an official at the facility told NBC News. Loughlin and and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were required to begin serving their prison sentences by Nov. 19. They admitted to paying…

“Full House” star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli have been ordered to begin serving their prison sentences on Nov. 19 for their involvement in the “Operation Varsity Blues” college admissions scam. Loughlin was ordered to serve two months behind bars while Giannulli was sentenced to five months in August after they admitted to paying $500,000 in…

WNBA star Maya Moore revealed Wednesday that she tied the knot with Jonathan Irons — a man she helped free from prison this year after a judge overturned his conviction.

More than 1,000 tainted cases were tallied in a new nationwide study by the registry that measures the role of government misconduct in wrongful convictions — and how that misconduct falls heaviest on Black exonerees. The study, published Tuesday, examined 2,400 cases from 1989 through February 2019 in which people were absolved of criminal convictions, and it found that 54...