Unless the governor or the U.S. Supreme Court grants him a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon, 67, will be the first person to ...

A Palestinian man, 62, from Gaza has died in Israeli custody, bringing to 62 the total number of deaths in detention since ...

Several Palestinian prisoners and detainees freed during this ceasefire deal have been harassed by Israeli forces after their ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia should pledge to halt airstrikes and naval military operations as the first step toward showing that it’s serious about ending the three-year war.

In South Carolina, death row prisoner Brad Keith Sigmon is scheduled to be killed by firing squad Friday in the state’s first-ever use of that execution method, and the first firing squad execution in ...

It also violated the custom that swaps involve similar sorts of prisoners—spies for spies, or criminals for criminals. Mr ...

"attachment_98416" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Jessica Lynch speaks at the third annual International Women’s Day ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul said that early reports suggested “extremely disturbing conduct” leading to the death of Messiah Nantwi, 22 ...

Thousands of corrections officers at dozens of prisons have been protesting working conditions in wildcat strikes across the ...

Officials from the Department of Corrections are investigating the death of a man who was incarcerated at California State Prison, Los Angeles County in Lancaster as a homicide.

A Clinton-era law, the PLRA, stymied prisoner lawsuits claiming serious harm. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over ...