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.

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.

A family is suing CoreCivic for $15 million, alleging the prison operator failed to protect an inmate left disabled with ...

A federal judge has ordered Georgia's prison system to provide hormone therapy for transgender inmates. U.S. District Judge ...

Clashes that erupted among prisoners in one of Ecuador’s most notorious prisons have left 13 inmates dead. Authorities said the violence broke out on Sunday following the “detonation of ...