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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of inmates joined the firefighters battling the wildfires in Southern California as part of a long-running controversial labor program. The state often relies on incarcerated firefighting ...

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

Cuba has started releasing some prisoners as part of talks with the Vatican, a day after President Joe Biden’s administration ...

Ales Bialiatski, a human rights advocate who won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Belarus ...

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