Italy is working “tirelessly” to bring home a journalist who has been under arrest in Iran for more than a week, the country ...

The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a notorious facility known for housing some of the country’s most notorious ...

The intimate Mass led by Pope Francis marked a historic moment — the first opening of a jubilee Holy Door within a prison.

Federal courts have rarely upheld claims of medical neglect in US prisons, even when healthcare providers failed to diagnose ...

Lisa Stavish was pronounced dead at 6:07 a.m. at the state Correctional Institute at Muncy, a medium/maximum security state prison for women in Lycoming County. How she died was not disclosed. The ...

As Gov. Roy Cooper prepares to leave office, advocates are anxiously waiting to see if he grants more clemency in the final ...

Timothy said: "I felt abandoned twice. I couldn't go to school, and now the state was discriminating against me. I decided to ...

Four Americans have been released from Chinese imprisonment since September, but advocates warn that more intervention is ...

On Friday, the Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office announced that 35-year-old Honorio Meliton Fidal has been sentenced ...

Delphi murderer Richard Allen, who was convicted in the savage 2017 killings of Indiana teens Abigail Williams and Liberty German, was sentenced to 130 years in prison on Friday.

Dealing with immense trauma, women survivors of Assad's prisoners are struggling to return to a sometimes unwelcome society ...

Using contraband cellphones and women that he called his 'wives,' a California prisoner oversaw a sprawling drug ring that ...