A&E True Crime explores the stories of five young women who were vital members of Charles Manson's cult, 'The Family,' and what became of them after they were separated from the man who had so thoroughly dominated their psyches.

Sheriff Jonathon Horton talks about his journey from the Navy to Etowah County, and the eye-opening nature of his department's '60 Days In' experience.

A notorious Boston mob boss serving a life sentence for his part in 11 slayings, James 'Whitey' Bulger, 89, was ailing and confined to a wheelchair on October 30, 2018, when he was slain at the U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton. But the details around his death remain murky.

For incarcerated women, childbirth can be very different from state to state.

What happens to a young child who murders? The answer largely depends on whether they're tried as a juvenile or as an adult. And, in 33 of the 50 states, there's no minimum age for prosecuting child offenders, which means you can prosecute 3-year-olds.

Lee Boyd Malvo, part of the D.C. Sniper duo who terrorized the D.C. area in a series of murders, is serving life in prison without parole. But Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the killing spree, may be up for parole in 2022 due to a new Virginia state law.

Derrick Jamison, who spent 20 years in prison for murder before being exonerated on his execution day, and Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, tell us what it's like in the final hours leading up to an execution.

Drugs are killing Americans in record numbers, but not everyone is being hit equally hard. Police and public-health workers battling the problem near Interstate Highway I-65—which runs through Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana—are at its front lines.

Chris Watts, the Colorado man serving three life sentences for the brutal murder of his wife and two young daughters claims to have had a religious conversion behind bars and is now an evangelical Christian. Murderers David Berkowitz, Jeffrey Dahmer and Karla Faye Tucker also claimed to have found or rediscovered God after being incarcerated. We speak with experts about why so many notorious criminals might make such claims while behind bars.

Twenty-two years ago, Amy Fisher walked out of an upstate New York prison. Dubbed the 'Long Island Lolita' by New York tabloids, she had dominated headlines in 1992 as the obsessed, gun-toting teen caught in a love triangle with a mechanic and his wife.