The push for state prison oversight boards is a national effort, said Maria Goellner, senior director of State Policy for FAMM. “There is a gap that desperately needs to be filled” in Missouri, ...

As 3,000 riot police swarmed his hillside villa on Wednesday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol huddled with party loyalists, telling them that people were increasingly realising the country's ...

A Pakistan court on Friday found former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi guilty of corruption in the 190 million pounds al-Qadir Trust case and sentenced them to 14 and seven ...

The Cuban government is beginning to release prisoners who were arrested in the historic anti-government protest of 2021 after the U.S. recently removed the island nation from its list of state ...

A man has been sentenced to six years in prison for assault and coercive and controlling behaviour over a two year period towards his ex partner who took her own life after a never-ending cycle of ...

Drone-flying drug gangs have seized control of prison airspace in a move that threatens national security, a watchdog has warned. Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, said the service had ...

How will you describe the prison facilities? The major challenge was congestion. There were too many people inside a limited space. Because of the population, 50 inmates would occupy a room that ...

Bronson's last parole hearing came in 2022 where he was denied his request of being moved to an open prison. On that occasion, the parole board noted evidence of 'improved self-control and better ...

More than 6,000 prisoners have been released in Myanmar as part of an amnesty to mark the 77th anniversary of the country's independence from Britain. The head of Myanmar's military government has ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Myanmar’s military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates ...

the former site of a U.S. detention operation called Camp Cropper that held hundreds of prisoners in the years before it was returned to Iraqi control in 2010. “Because of his conviction here ...

An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state's highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for, pushing as he had in the past to have ...