Trump's executive order eliminating transgender rights in prison will hurt or kill trans prisoners, experts warn.

President Biden commuted the prison sentence of Leonard Peltier, an imprisoned Native American rights activist, using his ...

After Marcy death, legislation to make it easier to fire correction officers who are found to have engaged in misconduct ...

Rights groups expressed worry Tuesday that President Donald Trump's reinstatement of Cuba on a US terror list could halt the release of "political prisoners" that started just last week under a deal ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences ...

While the release of prisoners is a step in the right direction, the Cuban regime’s broader human rights abuses remain deeply troubling.

Today, the basic necessities of life in prison are almost nonexistent. “Today, prisoners, both male and female, are suffering ...

A crowd stood outside the D.C. Central Detention Facility and waited for hours for more than a dozen people to be released in ...

Karen Vasquez, 44, walked out of jail in Cuba on Sunday, part of a deal brokered by the Vatican under which the Biden ...

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto is considering pardons for prisoners linked to armed organisations in the restive ...

Honestly, my feelings are indescribable,” Boshara Amro, 21, told NBC News after her sister Jeneen was released.