CRIMINAL LAW

Inmates will be released from federal prisons across the country between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2, in order to reduce overcrowding.

"The result of this review is significantly enhanced policies, procedures and training," the inspector general said.

Richard Glossip was convicted of orchestrating the fatal beating of his boss, motel owner Barry Van Treese, in 1997.

If executed, Richard Glossip would be the first inmate to be put to death in Oklahoma since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the lethal injection formula.

"If I could take it all back, I would," Mitchell said during a hearing.

The policy change eliminates a platform plank stating, “Allowing illegal immigrants to remain in California undermines respect for the law.”

The commission is recommending, among other steps, that Congress no longer fund immigrant family detention centers.

Richard Glossip, who was convicted of murder in 1977, received a last-minute reprieve until Sept. 30.

A Temple University professor was charged in May with wire fraud over allegedly sharing the superconductor technology of a U.S. company with China.

The Cuban government has announced the release of thousands of prisoners ahead of Pope Francis' visit to the island next week.

Undocumented immigrants tend to have higher birthrates than other groups living in the U.S.

The Pasco Police Department said Wednesday that an internal review into the incident is almost complete.

The plea deal, announced by acting U.S. Attorney Kelly Currie of New York, came nearly three years since Fishenko and 10 associates were charged.

The number of those detained peaked in March 2011, when police were holding nearly 28,000 people.

Five Colombian nationals were arrested in Bogota during a joint operation by the Colombian national police, Europol and the U.S. Secret Service.

Hundreds of people gathered at a Fox Lake park late Wednesday for a vigil in memory of officer Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, who was fatally shot Tuesday.

Florida officials say they will pursue the death penalty against the accused killer.

San Quentin State Prison has limited water use and halted inmate visits until risk from the water-borne bacteria passes.

James Holmes received a sentence of life in prison for killing 12 people in a Colorado movie theater in 2012.

A federal judge describes as "deplorable" the conditions under which hundreds of undocumented immigrant children are being held in family detention centers.

Officers shot and killed one suspect following an incident at a Motel 6, but a second suspect remains at large.