Many of his compatriots in the fight against Putin’s authoritarian regime did not survive. Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, Kara-Murza’s mentor and godfather to his youngest daughter, was the first to ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

Donald Small Jr., who has Parkinson's disease, will spend at least a couple of years in a prison for fatally stabbing his ...

The outcome of the appeal, brought by GEO Group, could set important legal precedent on wages for detainees who work in ...

Matthew Heath has an idea of what life in prison was like for Marc Fogel. Heath, a former U.S. Marine, was wrongfully ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Casanova was a cynical seducer, but also studied law, took holy orders, played the violin and carried out Venice’s most ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

The Shelby County Jail is aging, has failing infrastructure and is overcrowded. The sheriff's office allowed reporters inside ...

After several meetings since June on the possibilities for a new jail, the Fond du Lac County Jail Ad Hoc Committee released ...

How did the proposed prison make it to 2025 and what are the common questions that continue to be addressed in various ...