Jailers in Georgia must now check the immigration status of inmates and apply to help enforce federal immigration law. That's ...

Exclusive: First study of its kind finds prisoners are 28% less likely to receive treatment for cancer ...

Tunisia's main opposition coalition announced Tuesday it wouldn't participate in the country's upcoming presidential election ...

Tunisia’s main opposition coalition says it won’t take part in the upcoming presidential election unless political opponents ...

Pope Francis attended the Venice Biennale of Arts and visited the Vatican's exhibit, which was inside of a women's prison and ...

A bill before the state Legislature would lift the ban for most former prisoners, though some versions of the legislation ...

The 'National Comeback Kids Panel Discussion' was hosted on April 30 by HOPE for Prisoners (HFP), the Nevada -based nonprofit providing formerly incarcerated people with long-term support, and ...

Ukraine is just beginning to understand the lasting effects of the traumas its prisoners of war experienced in Russian captivity, but it has been failing to treat them properly and returning them ...

Prisoners were subjected to brutal daily beatings on their legs, backs and fingers, and mental and physical torture during interrogations, as well as hunger, cold and a lack of medical care, he said.

Staffing levels are critically low; some prisons are frequently forced into “red regimes” where prisoners are locked up for up to 23 hours a day. Who is actually inside our jails — and why ...

KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian marine infantryman endured nine months of physical and psychological torture as a Russian prisoner of war, but was allotted only three months of rest and rehabilitation ...

The pope, who throughout his papacy has spoken up in defence of prisoners and the marginalised, encouraged the women to reconstruct their lives "brick upon brick, together, with determination ...