On Friday, Governor Jared Polis announced clemency for 44 individuals, including commuting the prison sentence for former ...

One year after Chadian authorities arrested and later sentenced Succès Masra, the prominent opposition leader and former ...

Liberals have often cited the need for criminal justice reform. However, it is conservatives that appear to making more ...

About 200 tourgoers met in Courtroom 1 to hear about the 32nd year of the tours and village walks and then stroll around the ...

The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, with over 1.8 million individuals behind bars. While many see prison as synonymous with justice, a psychological lens reveals ...

Incarcerated in 1994 at the age of 19, Carlos Smith’s first job was working on an assembly line making paper folders for 20 cents per hour. His sentence was commuted in 2025. Smith fights to end these ...

Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest. The announcement included a photo showing the 80-year-old Suu Kyi sitting on a wooden bench in a skirt ...

BATON ROUGE – Beginning at age 16, Christi Cheramie was locked away for 25 years. She was a “juvenile lifer,” which is what juveniles serving life sentences without parole were called before the U.S.

Prison guards in New York say the state's correctional system is in crisis. Both guards and inmates are pleading with the state to fix what they say is a broken system.

In February 1980, a prison riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico, south of Santa Fe, left 33 inmates dead and more than 200 injured. No correctional staff were killed, but officers were assaulted and ...

Lawmakers and community advocates rallied in Albany on Monday in support of three bills that would help protect imprisoned people from abuse. According to the New York State Department of Corrections, ...