The Kerala High Court this week held that geographical restrictions on prisoners' visits to their relatives, while ...

The two hanging-judges, Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh, were integral parts of a network of criminal clerics at the heart ...

Pakistan's lower house of parliament has passed a bill with sweeping controls on social media that includes blocking ...

A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers wants more oversight over the prison system — as deaths in custody reach their ...

Political prisoners in Belarus urgently need more international support, human rights activist Ina Rumiantseva said in Berlin ...

The fire was sparked when an inmate tried to use an electrical outlet as a lighter, according to the president of the ...

The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his ...

Watch again as people criminally charged with participating in the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol, left prison after ...

A Texas man has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison over his failed effort to dupe disgraced ex-congressman George ...

Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

The Oath Keepers founder met with Republican Rep. Gus Bilirakis of Florida to lobby for a pardon for fellow Oath Keeper and January 6 rioter Jeremy Brown, who was sentenced to seven years in prison on ...

Trump has rescinded the Biden administration’s sanctions against Israelis accused of violence in the territory.