U.S. Attorney Adair Boroughs announced the findings of a 14-month long U.S. Department of Justice investigation into Alvin S Glenn Detention Center ...

HONG KONG, Jan 3 (Reuters) - China opened its first national sports arbitration centre this week in Beijing, the capital, taking a key step to strengthen the legal framework for resolving sports ...

WATERVILLE — Mayor Mike Morris has vetoed a vote the City Council took to establish a task force that would recommend ways the city can support vulnerable residents, including homeless people ...

Unlike traditional detention facilities, these centres are outside the purview of the judicial system, allowing the NSC to detain suspects for months without formal charges or access to legal ...

China has built or expanded more than 200 specialized detention facilities nationwide to interrogate suspects ensnared in Xi Jinping’s widening anti-corruption drive, a CNN investigation has ...

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TOKYO (AFP): A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a detention centre at age 78, officials said on Friday.

More than 100,000 people are thought to have died in Syria’s jails and detention centres during the 13-year civil war, with the fate of many detainees still unknown. Raghad Khallouf records a ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s "border czar" said Thursday that the use of family detention centers for migrants is “on the table,” raising the possibility that the practice ended by the ...

Dec. 26 (UPI) --President-elect Donald Trump's choice to oversee border policy said Thursday that family detention centers for migrants are "on the table," as a means of securing the border ...

Trump's immigration policies are drawing sharp criticism from human rights advocates who argue it could lead to the prolonged detention of children and family separations. Homan, who served as the ...