The latest attempt by former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters to secure release from a state prison fizzled out in federal court ...

BANGKOK: Thai authorities have suspended a prison chief in Bangkok over allegations that high-profile Chinese inmates were ...

The director of Idaho's prison system has laid out plans to increase protections against sexual abuse of inmates and to increase accountability for those accused. The move comes ...

In Bengaluru, Parappana Agrahara jail inmates staged a three-day hunger strike after authorities cracked down on rampant ...

It comes days after viral videos exposed prisoners using mobile phones, drinking alcohol and hosting parties inside the ...

The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has launched an intensive manhunt for fugitive convict Mike Mathe, who ...

In the past decade, more than 30 people who were experiencing a health crisis in New York prisons died of preventable or ...

Across Bangladesh’s prisons, thousands of death row inmates live under the shadow of the noose. For most, execution never comes. Yet they remain in solitary confinement for years, even decades ...

The U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a coalition of over 50 organizations, has been launched to abolish capital ...

A section of the N.C. DOJ repeatedly erred and antagonized federal judges–even in cases they seemed guaranteed to win.