Several former staff members from Pre-Trial Detention Center No. 1 in Irkutsk, Russia, who had received lengthy prison sentences for torturing and raping an inmate in 2020 have been released after a ...

While imprisoned and awaiting trial, Nelson was indicted in the killing of another inmate — a charge for which he was never tried. Steven Nelson, 37, and his wife, Helene Noa Dubois, and their ...

The Conservation (Fire) Camp Program, jointly run by California's corrections and fire departments, trains inmates to fight wildfires and respond to other emergencies. Inmate firefighters earn ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The death of a shackled inmate at a central New York State prison late last year has been ruled a homicide, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his ...

The words and stories of inmates from Marcy Correctional Facility paint a picture of a place with a history of pain, violence, and a system wielded like a fist by the very people sworn to keep ...

Thousands of Ukrainians have disappeared into prisons in Russia, and a network of Russians and Ukrainians are working ...

Stephen Hubbard was a wanderer. But when he moved to Ukraine, the war brought arrest, torture and imprisonment. He turns 73 ...

President Biden announced Friday morning he is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 inmates as the end of his presidency draws near. The commutations are for people convicted of non-violent ...

Sal Almanza is one of those inmates. He shared with ABC News Live what it's like battling the flames, and what he has learned from this experience. "Seeing the devastation, people losing their ...

Russia's opening gambit ahead of expected peace talks has been laid out in the mieda, says our Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett. "There has been a lot of talk about potential meetings and contact ...