Over 1,000 inmates at Ghezel Hesar Prison enter a third week of hunger strike against Iran's executions, with some sewing ...

Over 1,500 death row inmates at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Iran have initiated a mass hunger strike, including sewing their lips ...

Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to have two executions in one day, putting to death Dominick ...

A labor union and two female prison employees filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing a U.S. civil rights agency of unlawfully ...

An East Texas correctional officer accused of committing sexual acts against two different inmates was arrested last week. Hunter Harkins, 20, is charged with two counts of violation of civil rights ...

Iran has publicly hanged two men convicted of killing four police officers during nationwide anti-government protests in ...

I think that this is a really great step in the right direction to provide dignity to those who are incarcerated,” ...

The U.S. 6th Circuit says a corrections officer had reason to know that leaving a cell door open in protective custody put an ...

U.S. District Judge Sunshine S. Sykes ordered the government to make sweeping changes to medical care, sanitation, food, ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections is being sued over allegedly censoring reading material in prisons.

New regulations from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are causing confusion with the Inside Books Project, a group that's been supplying literature to inmates for nearly three decades.

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