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Montana's Cascade County District Judge Greg Pinksi on Friday handed down harsh punishments for Ryan Patrick Morris and Troy Allan Nelson, who both fabricated stories about serving in the military to get more lenient sentences.

Montana Men Who Lied About Military Service Ordered To Wear 'I Am A Liar' Signs

Two men pretended they had served in the military to have their cases transferred to veterans courts with the aim of getting more lenient sentences. It didn't work.

San Diego County residents are shown outside the Registrar of Voters Office in Kearny Mesa on Nov. 5, 2018.

County Asking Voters To Check Registration After 'Motor Voter' Problems

A $417,700 independent audit of the “motor voter” program found 84,000 duplicate voter registration records in the state — and more than 7,000 were in San Diego County.

Meek Mill addresses supporters outside of a Philadelphia courthouse on Aug. 27 following a hearing in which the 12-year-old criminal case against him was finally resolved.

Meek Mill Pleads Guilty To Misdemeanor Gun Charge, Ends 12-Year Legal Case

By taking a misdemeanor plea deal, Meek Mill officially closed the books on his long-running legal case Tuesday, nearly a decade after the rapper was arrested as a teenager in North Philadelphia.

Death row inmate Marcus Robinson listens in 2012 as a judge concludes that racial bias played a role when he was sentenced to death. Robinson was resentenced to life, but he was sent back to death row years later after the state's Racial Justice Act was repealed.

N.C. Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Racial Bias In Death Penalty Cases

In 2009, the state passed a law allowing inmates to challenge their sentence if race was a "significant factor." Nearly all inmates filed claims, but the law was later repealed and the cases voided.

U.S. President Trump has lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron in Biarritz, France. Leaders of some of the world's major economies have arrived in the country for the Group of Seven summit.

Trade And Economic Tensions Loom Over G-7 Summit In France

Just before leaving Washington, D.C., Friday, President Trump hiked tariffs on Chinese imports and threatened to force American companies to leave China.

A federal court has ordered that the state of Idaho pay for gender confirmation surgery for Adree Edmo, a transgender inmate incarcerated at the Idaho State Correctional Institution (above).

Court Says Idaho Must Provide Gender Confirmation Surgery To Transgender Inmate

A panel of judges ruled Friday that in denying a transgender inmate gender confirmation surgery, the state violated the Eighth Amendment.

Dawnta Harris, who is now 17, was charged as an adult, accused of murdering police officer Amy Caprio in May of 2018.

Teen Gets Life Sentence For Killing Police Officer In Baltimore County

Dawnta Harris was 16 when the stolen Jeep he was driving ran over Officer Amy Caprio, 29, in the spring of 2018. Harris will be able to seek parole.

The author's grandfather, Vicente Guerra, is pictured in a mugshot from San Quentin State Prison. He was sentenced to five years to life for the 1931 murder of Joseph Retotar.

My Grandfather, A Killer

Denise Guerra, a second-generation Filipino American, never met her grandfather. When she finally learned a long-held family secret, it shattered her view of the quintessential immigrant narrative.

A vehicle drives into the Otay Mesa detention center in San Diego, Calif., June 9, 2017.

Documents Allege Serious Medical Neglect Inside Otay Mesa Detention Center

Detainees at the Otay Mesa Detention Center allege serious medical conditions are being ignored or treated insufficiently, according to court documents and other public records obtained by Voice of San Diego. Lawyers say they’re having a harder time lately securing parole for detainees with serious medical conditions.

More than half of immigrants detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are housed in remote rural prisons, according to a new NPR analysis, about 52%. That number is increasing.

Unequal Outcomes: Most ICE Detainees Held In Rural Areas Where Deportation Risks Soar

NPR's analysis of Immigration and Customs Enforcement data show 52% of detainees in the last year were held in rural areas, where legal representation is limited and deportation is more likely.

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