The second of two defendants charged following an investigation of reported child sex abuse has been sentenced to a lifetime ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Pam White Butterfly was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday after a Pennington County jury convicted her ...

When Collier Circuit Judge Joseph Foster announced Amanda Cook's sentence, the killer began to yell and bailiffs removed her.

Chelsey Crowe has been sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for her role in the events that led up to the death of ...

“It’s been exactly 523 days without him, and our lives have been at a standstill. We miss him so much," said Teville Williams sister in court Thursday.

While men historically receive the majority of extreme prison sentences, some women around the world have faced extraordinarily long terms for crimes ranging from murder and fraud to political ...

Marie Scott had been incarcerated since 1973 for felony murder. Gov. Josh Shapiro commuted her life sentence in June.

A French court on Friday sentenced an Algerian woman to life imprisonment without parole for raping, torturing and murdering a schoolgirl in Paris, making her the first woman to receive this maximum ...

A state appeals court panel has rejected a bid for re-sentencing by a woman convicted along with her then-boyfriend of the murders of four members of her adoptive family in their Pico Rivera home when ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...