Also receiving pardons were advocates for immigrant rights, criminal justice reform and gun violence prevention.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the case of a former Chicago alderman, who served four months in a federal prison for ...

Joe Rogan's concise response to a guest on his Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) podcast, in response to the guest's deep dive into the Prison Planet theory, has seemingly caused a stir. Several netizens ...

Four medical staff members and a prison guard are held hostage at the prison in Arles, in France's department of Bouches-du-Rhône, local media reported. The five staff members were taken hostage ...

Corrections officers at the state prison where their co-worker was slain on Christmas are turning off their body cameras and retaliating against inmates, denying them showers and serving them only ...

The reforms announced by Hochul included a new permanent superintendent at the state prison, expediting a $400 million investment in fixed and body-worn cameras across all facilities, and hiring ...

FILE - This image provided by the New York State Attorney General office shows bodycam footage of correction officers beating a handcuffed man, Robert Brooks, 43, at the Marcy Correctional ...

Béatrice Zavarro, Dominique Pelicot's attorney, said on Monday in an interview with broadcaster France Info that Dominque will not appeal his prison sentence, saying that his clients wants to ...

The prison boss overseeing one of the most incarcerated places per capita on the planet has warned the Northern Territory is headed for a ‘tough New Year’ as a grim new record is broken.

Marcy, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday she had named a new leader at the Utica-area state prison where earlier this month several corrections officers brutally assaulted an inmate who later ...

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 ...