Georgia lawmakers have approved a $250 million budget allocation aimed at improving conditions in the state’s prisons.

The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office say they received a 9-1-1 call about illegal drug activity at an Acworth home in June of ...

Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili was sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty in an embezzlement case, local media reported Wednesday. Opposition figurehead Saakashvili ...

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A court in Georgia on Monday handed another prison sentence to former President Mikheil Saakashvili, extending his total imprisonment to 12½ years, in a verdict that he ...

On Monday, Saakashvili was sentenced to "four years and six months in prison for illegally crossing Georgia's border" when he covertly returned from exile in Ukraine, lawyer Dito Sadzaglishvili ...

ATLANTA — The murders of two 13-year-old boys in Atlanta have reignited calls to crack down on contraband cellphones in Georgia prisons, after investigators say a gang-ordered hit was ...

I’M STEVEN GRAVES WITH YOUR NEWS TO GO. LOCAL NURSES ARE NOW DEMANDING SAFER WORKPLACE CONDITIONS. DOZENS TURNED OUT TO AN EVENT YESTERDAY. INVESTIGATORS SAY 33 YEAR OLD STEVEN SCANTLEBURY BEAT ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A Georgia man has been handed a federal prison sentence of more than 17 years for trafficking drugs while in an Alabama prison. Justin Brian Melton, 35, was sentenced to 210 ...

Collectively, officials said thefts from a store in Canton and another in Alpharetta yielded about $1.7 million in stolen ...

FORT PIERCE — A Georgia prison inmate behind bars for rape was ordered to serve nearly 20 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to engaging in online child solicitation, according to t ...

In two cases, the politician was sentenced to three and six years in prison in absentia. Zourabichvili refused to step down on Sunday, saying she was the "only legitimate president".