Mother's outrage at jail sentence
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The mother of a child killed by a speeding motorist dubs his five-year jail term a "travesty".
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Iraqis react angrily to a 10-year-sentence imposed on a US soldier for abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib jail.
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A 24-year-old mother, who was charged in connection with an alleged plot to blow up US-bound airliners, was remanded in custody for two weeks.
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A mother-of-five will serve 15 months for killing her husband after a judge heard of the "frightening" abuse she suffered
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A couple are each jailed for seven years for keeping their five children in conditions of "utter squalor".
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A bereaved family's anger prompts calls for a change in policy over home visits and leave for inmates.
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A couple who used a now defunct legal loophole to lie over their son's death, are jailed for perverting the course of justice.
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A mother who was wrongly jailed for the murder of two of her children will get no compensation, she claims.
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More than three decades after the death of his 5-year-old brother, a man told police he thought his mother was to blame. After a case review, she was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder.
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Laci Peterson&#39;s mother burst into tears and shouted at her former son-in-law while testifying during the sentencing phase of his trial Tuesday afternoon.
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A German father of five sentenced to jail for online fraud is protesting against his conviction by occupying the top of a 22 metre (72 foot) pole.
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Calling her untruthful, selfish and a "ticking bomb on our roads," a Montgomery County judge sent a 59-year-old woman in a wheelchair to jail after a jury convicted her of vehicular manslaughter and negligent driving charges.
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WARWICK, Rhode Island  - Families of victims of a   U.S. nightclub fire that killed 100 people expressed outrage on   Friday at a plea deal under which one of the club's owners will   serve four years in jail and the other serve no prison time.
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Word that a U.S. Army reservist was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for physically and sexually abusing Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison drew scorn Sunday from Iraqis who thought he should have been tried here and punished with death.
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Courts must impose maximum sentences after road deaths, a Lanarkshire mother says.
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By RON MOORE  A MUM-of-four broke down and wept in court yesterday as she and her partner were refused bail on criminal charges of supplying chemicals used to make drugs.
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At turns confused, sad and defiant, even belligerent, the mother of the boy Michael Jackson is accused of molesting appeared in court Friday for the first time