The number of people killed in state-sanctioned executions worldwide rose to a 44-year high in 2025, according to a new ...

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Edward Busby was executed by lethal injection Thursday, reinforcing Texas’ position as the nation's leader in capital ...

Former detainees and digital reconstructions expose the violence and trauma of Syria’s ’human slaughterhouse’ Sednaya prison ...

Inmates at a Texas federal prison were punished for speaking to reporters about Ghislaine Maxwell — including one who says ...

Julie Howell did not know what she was getting into last year when she was asked about a new inmate who had arrived at her ...

First-the outrageous request in a new, handwritten letter from the notorious druglord. And second- fresh questions about ...

Pedro Cantú Ríos was eating lunch when he felt the chemicals rush into his lungs. Like many of the immigrant men held in a ...

More than half of children and teenagers in Argentina live in poverty, with the crisis hitting hardest in the greater Buenos Aires region.

For the past four and a half months, Nicolás Maduro has been in a federal detention center in New York—which has also held the likes of Luigi Mangione, Ghislaine Maxwell, and R. Kelly.

SÃO PAULO—A Brazilian gang founded in the country’s violent prisons is fast becoming one of the world’s biggest criminal organizations, reshaping global cocaine flows from South America to Europe’s ...