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The UK government has promised it will give 150 jobs in its probation service to ex-prisoners by next April, it was revealed on Thursday. The former prisoners will reportedly help ...

A second Orange County inmate died Jan. 21 from COVID-19 related complications, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan—Afghan security forces laid siege to a prison seized by ISIS terrorists in the eastern city of ...

Commentary One positive aspect of having spent three years and two weeks incarcerated in U.S. federal prisons (for ...

Commentary These days, we are all worried about those most susceptible to the ravages of the COVID-19 virus—not ...

In the long run, fixing our failed schools and our broken families and reviving moral principles in our ...

Iran on March 3 temporarily freed more than 54,000 inmates from prison in a move to prevent the ...

KYIV—Ukraine said on Sunday it had held talks with the Kremlin on swapping all remaining prisoners from the ...

DUBAI/WASHINGTON—The United States and Iran exchanged prisoners on Dec. 7 in a rare act of cooperation between two ...

The White House announced on Oct. 6 that U.S. troops are pulling out of northern Syria, clearing out ...

The Department of Justice announced that over three thousand inmates will be released on July 19. "And starting ...

An independent people's tribunal has unanimously concluded that prisoners of conscience have been—and continue to be—killed in China ...

Scientist He Jiankui’s claimed use of the genetic tool CRISPR to edit the genomes of twin girls led ...

Inmates in federal prisons enjoyed succulent, gourmet meals over the holidays, while the partial government shutdown forced overstretched ...

KABUL, Afghanistan—Afghan officials say the Taliban have taken more than 100 people, including women and children, hostage in ...

Now that Thailand's military junta has begun collaborating with the Chinese regime, is any place safe for political ...

BUCHAREST, Romania—Romania's crackdown on corruption and fraud in recent years has created a sudden and unexpected literary boom, ...

Ten prisoners from Yemen who were held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been released and sent to the ...

Syria's al-Qaida branch on Tuesday released a group of Lebanese troops held captive for over a year

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at the Auschwitz death camp was convicted Wednesday on 300,000 counts ...

One of two convicted killers who staged a brazen escape from an upstate maximum-security prison and had been ...

It's illegal for inmates to have smartphones, but many are smuggled in, where they're used to keep in ...

A prison in northeastern China has been at the center of a media storm as news organizations throughout ...

One-third of world’s prisoners are in pretrial detention. Some as long as years.

After a group of patients escaped from a mental hospital in southern China, the nation’s netizens have asked ...

An U.N. resolution to abolish capital punishment will be voted on in December. South Sudan’s justice system is ...

Victim Support will receive up to £1 million a year from convicted offenders said the Ministry of Justice. ...