The number of people killed in state-sanctioned executions worldwide rose to a 44-year high in 2025, according to a new ...

She’s written a memoir and a play, tried her hand at stand-up comedy and is pursuing her career as a journalist. She has ...

Nick Kristof has always come across to me as one who hates Israel — as opposed to say Tucker Carlson, whose hatred of the ...

Uyghur mother Mihrigul Tursun recounts years of alleged detention, torture and family separation in China's Xinjiang camps in ...

The California City Detention Facility, formerly known as the California City Correctional Facility, in California City in 2014. Photo by Anthony Albright via Wikipedia Welcome to CalMatters, the only ...

Prisons across China are required to innovate rehabilitation measures to help inmates better reintegrate into society under a revised law adopted Thursday by the Standing Committee of the National ...

Two families see this week’s state visit as a rare opportunity for Trump to speak directly to his Chinese counterpart about ...

Dawn Michelle Hunt and Nelson Wells, Jr. have each been jailed in China for over 10 years. Their families are losing patience ...

A Russian judge sentenced Olga Jezler to 10 years in prison on drug charges. Hostage advocacy groups say the charges are ...

A female inmate in Washington state is suing corrections officials after she says she was brutally attacked by a male-born prisoner housed in a women’s prison under the state’s gender-identity housing ...

An officer with the Ventnor Police Department was indicted on multiple charges Wednesday after being accused of recording a nude inmate while she was detained in a holding cell in 2025, according to ...