Alabama lawmakers are advancing a bill that would put oversight on the state’s parole board. The parole board has garnered ...

When journalist Peter Greste was languishing in a Cairo prison cell, he could little imagine that one day, Richard Roxburgh ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations ...

We have massive numbers in our prisons, and this constitutes an ongoing threat,” the Syrian Democratic Forces commander, Gen.

Lawyers for the prisoner alleged his eye “slowly, painfully died inside his head” after “botched eye surgery.” ...

An Alabama prison inmate was fatally stabbed inside William Donaldson Correctional Facility in west Jefferson County. The ...

Husain Al Kawwaz was indicted in August in U.S. District Court in Detroit and has been in custody of U.S. Marshals since.

Plea documents in the case against a former Alabama jailer charged in the death of an inmate says officers intentionally kept ...

English professor Randall Horton, Ph.D., who founded Radical Reversal, said the Mellon grant will give young people in a detention center in his home city of Birmingham, Alabama, and youths living in ...

A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial.

A jury found Demetrius Jackson guilty Monday in the deadly 2020 Riverchase Galleria shooting that killed an 8-year-old boy.