A barber will finally have the chance to be licensed in his trade, learned in prison.

After four years of struggle and uncertainty, Yaghoub Khezri, 86, finally was able to leave Iran and was to return to New York on Wednesday.

The case of Kareem Bellamy shows how many pieces must fall into place for most wrongly convicted people to get another meaningful day in court.

The case of Kareem Bellamy shows how many pieces must fall into place for most wrongly convicted people to get another meaningful day in court.

“The Castle” is an autobiographic drama created and played by former criminals.

Samuel Israel III, a fugitive hedge fund swindler, faked his suicide on the day he was to report to prison.

The state attorney general’s office said it would not retry Martin H. Tankleff for the murder of his parents.

The guards were fired on Wednesday after they were accused of smuggling marijuana, alcohol and tobacco to an inmate who is awaiting trial in the death of a police officer last July, officials said.

Daniel L. Bibb said he deliberately helped the other side win in the trial of two men accused of the 1990 shooting of a bouncer outside the Palladium nightclub.

A little more than an hour before a former hedge fund manager was to report to prison, his car was found abandoned on a bridge over the Hudson River with “Suicide Is Painless” etched on its hood.