Murder and financial crimes stood out among the cases that came up in federal and state courts in 2024, with some still ...

The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open.

A man already in prison for multiple assault charges was sentenced in federal court Thursday. Kamau Evans, 32, was handed a 176-month prison sentence (a little more than 14.5 years) plus three ...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - The Correctional Service of Canada says an inmate has escaped the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert. It says during the 9:30 p.m. count on New Year’s Eve, staff ...

These U.S. citizens are awaiting trial in Leavenworth because they sent money to help the war effort in Cameroon, just like ...

(U.S. Department of Justice) ALBANY — Former NXIVM president Nancy Salzman is out of federal prison less than 20 months into her 3½ year sentence for admitted crimes as Keith Raniere’s top ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced new reforms at Marcy Correctional Facility and the state’s Department of Corrections ...

San Diego County’s Board of Supervisors, for example, recently voted to forbid local law enforcement from aiding federal immigration ... and five years in prison per immigrant involved.

Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

Bowie was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Calvin Lee Wilson and Nelson Roger Shuford ...

Syrian rebel forces have said they plan to close the notoriously harsh prisons run by ousted president Bashar al-Assad and hunt those involved in the killing or torture of detainees. Rebel leader ...

Despite plans to create an extra 14,000 prison cells by 2031, the UK still faces the prospect of running out of space for inmates. The dire prediction has prompted justice secretary Shabana Mahmood to ...