Alaa Abd el Fattah, 43, has been imprisoned in Wadi El Natrun prison in Cairo after being arrested for his activist work in ...

I’ve been following with a mixture of dismay and disgust Trump’s One Big Ugly Bill, soon to emerge from the House. I’ll report back to you on it. But I want to alert you to one detail inside it that’s ...

A woman accused of murdering a 17-year-old in Omaha last year was sentenced on Wednesday. Earlier this year, Kianna Opal, 19, pleaded “no contest” to seco ...

A Belarusian man has died in prison while serving a sentence for insulting the country's authoritarian president, a human rights group said Thursday, adding to a growing number of political prisoners ...

After 10 inmates escape from Orleans Parish Prison, Sheriff Susan Hutson is under fire for leadership failures, prompting a pause in her re-election efforts.

MADISON, Wis. (WSAW) - The man who was found guilty of killing UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann in 2008 has died in prison. According to Wisconsin DOJ records, David Kahl died in the Dodge ...

Sex offenders could face chemical castration and thousands more criminals will serve sentences in the community under plans ...

The industry is currently facing a shortage of about 60,000 drivers, according to the American Trucking Association.

Derrick Hairston had 8 to 13 years added to that sentence. He pleaded guilty to assaulting a jail employee back in January.

An official review commissioned by the British government calls for criminals to earn earlier release, and cites Texas as a ...

Members of the Colorado Supreme Court considered last week whether a man serving a lengthy prison sentence for securities ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is investigating the death of an inmate at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano as a possible ...