The 'staggering' taxpayer cost of keeping prisoners in jail has more than doubled in the past decade - as the price of building new jails to ...

A prison officer in Iran beat an imprisoned Christian convert for requesting medical treatment for a heart condition, ...

Iranian authorities have released French citizen Olivier Grondeau, detained since October 2022 on security charges, and he has returned to France, President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday.

The billionaires collectively lost $209 billion since Donald Trump became US president. The decline in their wealth is also being attributed to the downturn in the stock market and uncertainty in the ...

The billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have since lost $209 billion ... to Stop Believing New York fires more than 2,000 prison guards for refusing to return to work after ...

Faced with seven homicides in the first nine weeks of the year, California prison authorities announced they have restricted inmate movement and revoked privileges such as visits and phone calls ...

(Council Bluffs) -- A Council Bluffs man has been sentenced to eight years in prison on a firearm charge. U.S. Attorney Richard D. Westphal announced that 40-year-old Jesus Everardo Medina was ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong wildcat strike that crippled the state's correctional system, but said ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York fires more than 2,000 prison guards for failing to return to work after a weekslong wildcat strike. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press ...

Privatization of prison food isn’t a new phenomenon, but it’s growing substantially. According to one market analysis, the industry was worth almost $3.2 billion in 2022 in the United States alone, ...

South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been released from prison a day after a court cancelled his arrest warrant. Footage aired on local TV channels showed Yoon leaving prison on ...

A top leader of Mexico's violent Jalisco New Generation cartel was sentenced to life in US prison Friday for his bloody role in creating one of the world's most powerful drug syndicates.