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

The Kerala High Court has held that the geographical restrictions on escort visits of prisoners to see their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The 61-year-old, an MP, feminist and prisoners’ rights advocate, had been held in administrative detention - a policy that allows Israeli authorities to hold individuals without charge or trial ...

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.