In one sense, a story in High Country News by Kori Suzuki is about the memory of James Wakasa, a Japanese immigrant who was ...

EL PAÍS reconstructs, based on different cases, the ordeal of the families of the immigrants sent to the Central American country from the United States amidst accusations of mass arbitrary detention ...

A final meal represents the last bit of power the world's worst killers will ever wield - and invites wild combinations, ...

In another round of protests, an estimated 2,000 or more demonstrators gathered in front of the Utah Capitol in Salt Lake ...

The Lorton Reformatory was built in 1910 and shut down in 2001. Now the 2,400-acre property houses apartments, a preschool, ...

There was joy and celebration at the Kakamega Women’s Prison when 94-year-old Sabina Isutsa — probably one of the oldest convicts in Kenya — was released from prison.The widowed grandmother and her ...

In 1990, the closure of the Virginia State Penitentiary ended nearly 200 years of holding state inmates in downtown Richmond.

Scott Dale Owen was sentenced to at least 15 years in jail after admitting to abusing several patients during conversion therapy sessions.

The Dateline episode As Night Fell revisits Heidy Truman's well-known murder case in Utah and the ten-year legal and emotional fallout involving her husband, Conrad Truman. He was jailed in 2013 for ...

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart simultaneously with three bullets.

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has said the old prison building is in a poor physical state and unsuitable for use in its current form. Engineering consultants carried out a detailed assessment of ...

WASHINGTON CITY, Utah -- Authorities ... that 16 to 17-year-old suspects charged with murder be tried as adults. The law says minors cannot be sentenced to death or life in prison without parole.