A mass jailbreak was taking place on Monday morning at a prison in the besieged Congolese city of Goma, hours after fighters from the armed group M23 and Rwandan troops entered the city, a security ...

Mississippi lawmakers will consider requiring state prisons to provide inmates on work assignments with protective gear.

Israel will on Saturday free a Palestinian inmate who has spent the longest continuous period in Israeli detention, Mohammed al-Tous, who was jailed for nearly four decades, according to the ...

Thousands of anti-abortion activists are coming to Washington for the annual March for Life, seeking to build momentum and ...

The Justice Department ordered federal prosecutors to investigate state or local officials who they believe are interfering ...

In the hours after taking office for the second time, President Donald Trump signed numerous executive orders in quick ...

President Donald Trump ordered the attorney general to hunt for instances of campaigns against perceived political opponents.

The Hughes fire broke out a little before 11 a.m., roughly five miles north of the Pitchess Detention Center. The Sheriff's ...

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His administration will likely run into legal trouble as it implements policies on federal identity documents and housing in ...

A prison advocacy group is suing Jefferson County officials over claims the jail is censoring books and magazines sent to ...

Crystal Yang, a professor at Harvard Law School and one of the study’s co-authors, said jails that seek a stamp of approval from the NCCHC tend to better educate staff about referring inmates ...