President Donald Trump said he raised political prisoners’ cases—including Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai and detained ...

The prisoner who survived a botched execution attempt should have her death sentence commuted, her lawyer has argued.

A death-row prisoner, who had sustained severe burns while attempting to kill himself by setting himself on fire at Central ...

Dialogue of the day: There's a line tied to The Shawshank Redemption that captures something the entire story keeps circling back to, that prison isn't always made of bars and walls, sometimes it's ...

A 36-year-old Pakistani national held at the high-security central jail in Jammu has died by suicide. Authorities confirmed the prisoner was declared dead upon arrival at the Government Medical ...

A paedophile who sent sexualised messages to a 13-year-old girl from a prison has been jailed for three years. Martin Mills, ...

Former Virginia death row prisoner Justin Wolfe was released Sept. 28 after 25 years behind bars, following a Fourth Circuit ...

A prisoner at HMP Wymott died after his worsening mental health was not escalated despite repeatedly telling staff he was having thoughts of self-harm, a watchdog report has found.

Tennessee’s Governor Bill Lee has halted all remaining executions this year, after a death row prisoner survived two lethal ...

Gov. Bill Lee ordered a review of the state’s capital-punishment process after the botched attempt to put Christa Pike to death. She was hospitalized late Wednesday.

A prisoner who attacked Russian Federal Penitentiary Service officers aboard a special train carriage in Kabardino-Balkaria ...

The first wave of releases began on Thursday, with nearly 5,000 prisoners set to be freed in stages over the next year as the ...