A Lynchburg organization is helping local detainees register to vote and reminding them of the power their voices have, even while incarcerated.

A national nonprofit that aids low-income people behind bars is reopening its Atlanta branch.

A program at the Rockbridge Regional jail is aimed at helping those who are looking to turn their lives around.

The attorney for the leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov_ Gretchen Whitmer says his client should not be sentenced to life in prison because prosecutors overstated his role in the plot and have created a “false narrative of a terrifying para-military leader."

There's no dispute about some of the evidence in the trial of two men accused of wanting to kidnap Michigan’s governor.

Defense lawyers have rested their case in the trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan's governor.

Prosecutors have rested their case against two men on trial for a second time in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.

A man who pleaded guilty to conspiring to kidnap Michigan's governor says two other men were “very eager” to move forward with the plan in 2020.

Defense attorneys have grilled an FBI informant in the trial of two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s governor.

An FBI agent who works undercover has told jurors about a ride to see Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's vacation home in 2020.

A second trial is underway for two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A white Iowa woman who said she drove her SUV into two children in 2019 to try to kill them because of their race has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on federal hate crimes charges.

As the coronavirus pandemic raged over the past year, Virginia prison officials released more than 2,100 inmates early to try to control the spread of the virus by reducing the prison population. That practice will end on July 1, the Department of Corrections announced Wednesday.

RICHMOND, Va. Officials in Virginia say a regional jail is on lockdown after approximately 70% of its inmates recently tested positive for COVID-19. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the superintendent of the Pamunkey Regional Jail says there have been no deaths or hospitalizations as a result of the positive tests. Willett also said the vast majority of those who tested positive showed either mild symptoms or no symptoms. All offenders testing positive have been notified, isolated from the rest of the jail population and are being treated as needed by jail medical staff. Officials also said employees who tested positive are on emergency paid leave.