Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the Iran-backed Houthi group have agreed to free around 2,700 detainees held throughout the war.

Three inmates have escaped from a county jail east of Atlanta, including one charged with murder. The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office says the breakout happened early Monday morning at the ...

A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention ...

Then came the second wave in late winter: Hundreds of people from Assad’s Alawite sect, mostly men, were seized by the new ...

Prisons and lockups that jailed tens of thousands of people during Assad’s rule are now crowded with Syrians detained by President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s security forces and held without formal charges.

Turner had been a federal inmate for nearly 30 years. A jury in Virginia found Turner guilty in 1997 of first-degree murder ...

Officer Jovian Motley died at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Wainwright Unit in Lovelady, in what was supposed to be a routine inmate cell extraction.

A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

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During his court-martial Dec. 17 at the Lawrence Williams Judicial Center, Spc. Kip D. Holloway pleaded guilty to voluntary ...

The woman is also suing the federal government, claiming it never should have let a correctional officer alone with her.

Austin Animal Services is considering using state jail inmates to clean kennels, a proposal that has raised safety and ethical concerns among staff and the ACLU.