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Wrongly convicted of murder and finally free, can Ryan Ferguson put his life back together? "48 Hours"' Erin Moriarty reports, Saturday, March 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
Saturday at 9 p.m. ET/PT, wrongly convicted of murder and finally free, can Ryan Ferguson put his life back together? Then at 10, why would a man confess to killing his 14-year-old cousin if he didn’t do it? Two men, two questionable convictions. Erin Moriarty investigates.
A 74-year-old woman who has spent the last 32 years behind bars has been granted a release from prison, and advocates say it's also a step forward for victims of abuse. KCAL's Randy Paige reports.
TV pitchman and author Kevin Trudeau will spend 10 years in prison for running false ads about his book, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About." Anthony Mason reports.
Freed American hikers Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal are the authors of a new memoir, "A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran." They join the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts to discuss being imprisoned in Iran after unknowingly crossing its border, their journey and how they survived.
In July 2009, Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal unknowingly hiked across the Iraqi border into Iran. They told "Sunday Morning's" Tracy Smith about being at the Iranian border.
An 81-year-old great-grandmother spent two nights in a Maryland detention center for a minor pet violation committed nearly a year ago. As WJZ's GiGi Barnett reports, the senior citizen says her punishment doesn't fit the crime.
Despite turmoil in Egypt and the possibility of prison, Bassem Youssef’s director says the show must go on. “People need truth,” director Mohamed Khalifa tells correspondent Bob Simon.
Three Americans hiking in northern Iraq were walking up a ridge when armed soldiers appeared in the distance and waved them over. They had no idea that those soldiers were waving them into Iran. Tracy Smith sits down for a rare interview with Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal about their long imprisonment in Tehran.
Attorney General Eric Holder says reducing penalties for nonviolent drug traffickers could improve the "fairness" of the criminal justice system and preserve scarce resources for more dangerous threats to public safety.
CBS News' Alex Ortiz reports from Cairo, Egypt, on the trial of three Al-Jazeera journalists charged with aiding members of a terrorist organization.
Pennsylvania has put more juveniles behind bars for life than anywhere else in the country. And, of those people, Joe Ligon has the tragic distinction of being the oldest and longest–serving juvenile lifer in the country. He was recently released from a Pennsylvania prison after 68 years. "CBS This Morning: Saturday" co-host Michelle Miller spoke with Ligon in his first U.S. television interview since his release.
Three men are enjoying life outside of prison after a judge overturned their convictions — 24 years after they were placed behind bars. Their attorneys say the case was built on false confessions and that the men were victims of prosecutorial misconduct and racial bias. Those men spoke to Nikki Battiste days after their release.
Former NFL player Kellen Winslow II was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in prison for multiple rapes and other sexual offenses against five women in Southern California, including one who was homeless when he attacked her in 2018. CBS Los Angeles reports.
The 66-year-old politician was convicted for having tried to illegally obtain information from a senior magistrate in 2014.
Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman, says she is being abused and raped while in prison. Diamond filed her second lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections for not protecting her or providing the necessary health care she and other incarcerated trans people require. CBSN's Lana Zak spoke to Diamond's lawyer, Chinyere Ezie, about the lawsuit and the impact it could have on the trans community.
The Biden administration is conducting a formal review of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The prison was established by former President George W. Bush in 2002 to house foreign terror suspects following 9/11. President Biden intends to close the prison by the end of his first term in 2024, reviving an Obama-era goal that never came to fruition. Carol Rosenberg, a New York Times reporter, joins CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss the potential closure.
Officials say 90 of 95 tests came up positive for the highly contagious variant and results from 100 more tests were still pending.
Transgender people in prison face a higher risk of sexual assault by both inmates and staff, a study shows. Dwen Curry, a Black transgender woman who spent four years in a men's prison, joined CBSN to discuss the harsh realities trans people face while serving time behind bars and what policymakers should do.
Three prison guards at a New Jersey women's prison have been charged in connection with a violent attack on inmates last month, the state's attorney general announced Thursday.
Zhang Zhan's lawyer tells CBS News the citizen journalist has no hope for justice, and he fears for her health as she's out of touch and on a hunger strike.
In this CBSN Originals, we look at the unintended consequences of using private correctional health care companies to administer care to our nation’s prisoners.
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was sentenced to two and a half years in prison over probation violation charges. The ruling comes two weeks after Navalny was arrested upon his return to Moscow from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from a nerve agent poisoning he blames on the Kremlin. CBS News foreign correspondent Holly Williams joined CBSN from London with the latest.
Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin's fiercest critic, could be sentenced to prison today. Navalny is accused of breaking the terms of a previous parole agreement; his supporters say the case is a mockery of justice. Holly Williams reports.
The Pentagon paused a plan to vaccinate Guantanamo Bay detainees after Republican lawmakers criticized the decision.
The murder of Charlie Kirk last week follows a litany of violent acts against political targets. Historian Jon Meacham talks about the existential questions now facing America.
Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested on charges of aggravated murder, obstruction of justice and felony discharge of a firearm for the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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The device had been lit but "failed to function as designed," a Unified Fire Authority Investigations officer wrote in affidavits of probable cause.
Rep. Michael McCaul, a foreign policy leader who had strongly supported Ukraine, warned Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "testing the resolve of NATO."
Desmond Holly and several school shooters in the past year were active on the same website, the ADL says.
In a joint segment with Republican Sen. James Lankford, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons said amid efforts to foster bipartisan discourse, the internet "is driving extremism in our country."
The strike on the Kirishi refinery, in Russia's northwestern Leningrad region, follows weeks of Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil infrastructure that Kyiv says fuels Moscow's war effort.
Venezuela's foreign ministry said nine fishermen were "illegally and hostilely" detained on Friday by the USS Jason Dunham.