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 ...

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 ...

Israel is expected on Sunday to begin releasing more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, according to the terms of the ...

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 ...

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

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

Moments before he left office and as one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard ...

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.