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

The treatment of prisoners reflects the moral fabric of any society. Recent news of prisoner abuse in Syria and Israel has brought this critical issue to the forefront, highlighting the urgent need ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The first hostages freed from Gaza under a long-awaited ceasefire agreement are back in Israel, and desperately needed aid is ...

They did not know in what condition the prisoners would return, given what rights groups and former prisoners have described as increasingly harsh conditions in Israeli prisons. Reporting from ...

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

Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners to cheering crowds in the West Bank after Hamas returned three hostages that were being held in Gaza.

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

The settlement comes over a decade after the first concerns were raised publicly about the sheriff’s department’s confidential informant program, which investigators found broke multiple laws.