Six Americans were detained Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, miniature Bibles ...

After 27 years of praying, Charlene Diaz's wish was finally granted when her son, Benjamin Cole, was released from prison on ...

Clemency has come early and often in President Donald Trump's second term, prompting nearly 10,000 convicts to request ...

Trump has been criticized for wiping away convictions of political allies, former Republican officeholders, and hundreds of people charged in the Capitol riot.

President Trump's unconventional approach to clemency has spread hope among federal prisoners and formerly incarcerated ...

In 1984, the country’s first for-profit prison was established in Tennessee, and over the next six years, it was joined by 66 more. In August 2016, the Justice Department announced their plans to end ...

On November 20, 2023, a special court in Chennai convicted Subramanian and his associates under the Tamil Nadu Protection of Interests of Depositors Act (TNPID). He was sentenced to 20 years in prison ...

Wealstun Prison guard Megann Gibson, 26, had phone sex with an inmate and flooded his mom with hundreds of messages to keep the illicit tryst going, a UK court has heard.

Prison officers should be armed with lethal weapons to crack down on Islamist terrorists, ... In 14 years, they closed 1,600 cells in the high-security estate, staff assaults soared, ...

A former police chief serving time for rape and murder impersonated a law enforcement officer to escape an Arkansas prison where he was serving a 50-year sentence for rape and murder.

The phased closure of Minnesota Correctional Facility–Stillwater has been confirmed by state officials on Thursday. The closure of Minnesota's second largest prison will take place over the next four ...