New Zealand's first jail was a simple affair, just a symmetrical four-roomed log building, built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Writers Guild Foundation has teamed with the Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP) on the Justice-Impacted Writers Project (JIWP), a fellowship for aspiring writers currently ...

Two inmates of Moroccan origin attempted to escape yesterday from the prison of Nisida ... Nisida has been practicing a personnel management completely distant from what should be the regular ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi has called for establishing new prison complexes in Rahim Yar Khan and Lahore while reiterating his commitment to finalize recommendations of all provincial ...

Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the "human slaughterhouse", Sky News saw the conditions that people were kept in until the fall of the Assad regime. Sky News' lead world presenter ...

Speaking exclusively to CNN while on a three-week medical release from prison, Mohammadi said, “Not even the prison walls and all these convictions can ever stop me.” Mohammadi has spent most ...

In a staggering settlement, the federal government will pay $116 million to more than 100 women who said they were sexually abused by employees at a now-shuttered federal prison in Dublin ...

The father and stepmother of a severely abused 10-year-old girl found dead in her home in England were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for murder. Urfan Sharif, 42, and Beinash Batool ...

A transgender woman filed a court petition Tuesday arguing that her transfer to a men’s prison, where she has been in solitary confinement for months, constitutes cruel punishment. Amber Kim ...

The Austin Police Department fired officer Christopher Taylor on Wednesday, a day after a judge sentenced him to two years in prison for the 2019 shooting death of a mentally ill man.

The funds were utilized to support ISIS in various ways, including aiding the escape of female ISIS members from prison camps and supporting ISIS fighters. Chhipa used various social media ...

A former prison guard trainee who executed five women inside a bank in Sebring almost six years ago was sentenced to death on Monday as his judge called the slayings calculated, heinous and cruel.