U.S. sending "low-risk" migrants to Guantanamo, despite vow to send "the worst"
While the Trump administration has highlighted transfers of dangerous criminals to Guantanamo Bay, it is also sending ...
Elizabeth Holmes dishes on ‘hell and torture’ of prison life in first interview since fraud conviction
Holmes is serving a reduced sentence at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas for fraud and conspiracy related to the collapse ...
Family of Marc Fogel reacts to his release from Russian prison: "It's extraordinary"
After three-and-a-half years of imprisonment in Russia, Butler, Pennsylvania, native Marc Fogel is returning home.
UN announces death in Yemeni prison of aid worker detained by Houthis
CAIRO -- The United Nations World Food Programme said Tuesday that an aid worker has died in a Yemeni prison three weeks after his detention by Houthi rebels. The announcement came a day after the U.N ...
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Pennsylvania Department of Corrections recommends closure of state prison, boot camp
The Department of Corrections also wants to shut down two state-run Community Corrections Centers, one of which is in Berks County.
Repeat sex offender gets 40 years in prison for producing child pornography
Luis Nathan Hernandez made videos of sex acts with a minor. He has a history of sex crime convictions dating back to 2004.
13-year-old girl scribbled ‘Help me!’ Now her kidnapper has a 35-year prison term
A Texas man was sentenced to 35 years in prison after kidnapping a 13-year-old, driving her to California, threatening her ...
Recent arrests of immigrants in metro Phoenix are for illegal presence, not violent crime
Successive days of monitoring cases in federal criminal court revealed several immigrants came to ICE attention through ...
Away from wife and kids, man amassed 'worst' collection of child porn prosecutor has seen
A man who bragged online about molesting his young relatives appeared in a West Palm Beach courtroom with the full support of ...
A mass hunger strike transformed solitary confinement in California prisons. This documentary captures the fight
In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...
The Salvadoran Mega-Prison Offering to Take America’s Worst Criminals
The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.
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Nevada prisons director points to 4-mile fence, better staffing; inmate food issues persist
A high-profile inmate escape, the resignation of the prisons director, and reports that fences, doors and windows were ...