A court in the Nigerian capital of Abuja has convicted almost 400 terrorism suspects in a mass trial that spanned four days.

A drug dealer dubbed the "Ketamine ‌Queen" has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in connection with the fatal overdose of ...

Prisons are grappling with a critical staff shortage with more than 1000 prison officers on workers’ compensation – some for ...

The decision followed a union meeting with Corrective Services deputy commissioner, Leon Taylor, at the facility on Monday, ...

Every state and territory must have these programs, but as was recently revealed in New South Wales, they’re often ...

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R. Kelly has been released from isolation at a federal prison in North Carolina after spending roughly two weeks in the facility’s Special Housing Unit while officials investigated his possession of a ...

Just months after President Trump's mass pardons for Jan. 6 rioters freed him from prison, a Florida man repeatedly sexually abused two middle-school aged children. On Thursday, the man, Andrew Paul ...

A screenshot of a video of a protest in Canaleta prison, in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba. UNPACU, José Daniel Ferrer. Unprecedented videos coming out of a high-security prison in Cuba have shown, possibly for ...

Joseph Mendoza, 36, was stabbed nearly 180 times and died at the Salinas Valley State Prison. Someone on staff captured video of the stabbing and leaked it where it appeared on social media, according ...

Some North Carolina Republicans say that the man accused of killing a woman on a Charlotte commuter train last year was released from prison early as part of a 2021 COVID-era settlement between civil ...

The Alabama prison system has moved three well-known inmate activists who supported a 2022 prison strike and were featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary about the troubled system to isolated cells ...