Kochi: High court has granted escort parole to Shaji Poovathil, a convict sentenced to capital punishment in the Alappuzha ...

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

SHAUGHNA Phillips had her dream career as an influencer,  she was about to welcome her first child and it looked like she had ...

Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç explained that new amendments will allow authorities to sentence convicts handed down the lowest ...

The new law aims to reform how mentally ill people are treated within the criminal justice system by providing them with the ...

The U.S.’s contract with CECOT is, in and of itself, unparalleled ( and a blatant violation of human rights and dignity ).

Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death.

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

In its ruling, the Virginia Court of Appeals said three sentences imposed on the man for sexually abusing a minor exceeded ...

Despite decades of attempted legal interference and motions filed to prevent it, Mississippi's longest-serving death row ...

Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia offers exactly that raw, unfiltered connection to the past – a crumbling cathedral of correction that draws visitors from every corner of Pennsylvania and ...

On June 21, former presidential candidate and popular blogger Siarhei Tsikhanouski and 13 other Belarusian political ...