Ajay Dev sat down for his first on-camera interview since being freed from state prison, after a Yolo County judge overturned ...

The family of a Nevada inmate who died in custody in December 2023 is disputing the official account of his death.

Serious criminal convicts are a small minority of the people taken into custody by ICE. The vast majority of detainees have ...

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

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

The USA has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Shelves of books and reams of media exposés have revealed the inhumanity of American jails, prisons, and immigration detention ...

Israel’s military struck entrances to the detention facility in Tehran, where dissidents and political prisoners are held.

Task force recommends $600M men's prison, down from DOC's $825M ask State House Majority Leader Scott Odenbach, R-Spearfish, made a motion to limit the total budgetary cost for the construction of ...

Russian dissident and Kremlin critic Leonid Volkov, a prominent ally of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was sentenced in absentia on Wednesday to 18 years in prison.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's highest court upheld a six-year prison sentence for former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in a ruling Tuesday that permanently banned her from ...

In 2023, the prison saw a 188% turnover rate, for the highest in the state. The prison has also seen a barrage of lawsuits from family members who have lost loved ones.

While no one aspires to find themselves behind bars, there are some countries that have better accommodation for inmates than others. The 'world's worst prison' is said to be in Venezuela where ...