Last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) sentenced Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (also known as Ali Kosheib), a ...

The vigorous enforcement of marijuana laws has resulted in four million arrests since the early 1980s. Owing to mandatory-minimum sentences, many of those co ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday presided over the final major celebration of the Holy Year, calling for renewed commitment to justice, ...

Former national fencer Nam Hyun-hee, who was suspected and cleared of aiding Jeon Cheong-jo to fraudulently solicit ...

A Honduran man who sexually assaulted a disabled woman after sneaking into the U.S. for the seventh time is at center of a ...

The concept of lawbreakers being confined in prison as punishment is so ingrained in our way of thinking that it might not even occur to most people that there are other ways of doing things. But in ...

T. Sheri Dickerson was accused in a federal indictment of embezzling more than $3 million in funds meant for social justice ...

Patrol canines have bitten incarcerated people in the head, stomach, arms and legs — and in two cases, attacked corrections ...

Families of murder victims Tylik Pugh and Nathaniel Wiggins are enraged Gov. Phil Murphy let their loved ones' killers out of ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results ...

While prison disciplinary policies do not cite periods directly, the PPI report identified at least six types of prison policies used to punish menstruating people: These include rules concerning ...