DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse ...

Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on ...

New York Attorney Letitia James is recusing herself from a probe into the death of an inmate who was allegedly beaten to death by upstate prison guards — as Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed a new ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul toured Marcy state prison on Monday and subsequently announced that Danielle Medbury, the prison’s acting superintendent, had been removed from that position. Medbury ...

The beating and death of an inmate at a New York prison last month has sparked a ... pattern and practice of brutality and violations of people’s human and civil rights.” ...

A TEEN held for plotting a terror attack has allegedly stabbed ten prison officers since he was locked up. The 17-year-old Islamist sliced off one’s ear and ­att ...

Corrections officers in a Utica-area prison beat Robert Brooks until he was "nothing less than graveyard dead," a group of Rochester faith leaders said Monday. Their actions, clergy members said ...

She said in a news release that she had met with the prison’s interim leadership, as well as several people incarcerated there. The governor spent time in the infirmary exam room where on Dec. 9 ...

A recently released Washington state woman says her former cellmate, a biological male who stands six feet, four inches tall and is a "violent, convicted sexual predator," repeatedly sexually ...

CANY's October 2022 monitoring visit included 117 interviews with incarcerated individuals along with additional meetings with prison staff ... Incarcerated people told us that Black individuals ...

SEATTLE — The 22-year-old man who hit and killed two men on Interstate 5 in Seattle last year was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Prosecutors said Antonio Lopez fled to Mexico after the ...