Khaira Howard, 28, had shared concerns about prison conditions, including toxic mold, with a state lawmaker's office and a ...

Khaira Howard, 28, had shared concerns about prison conditions, including toxic mold, with a state lawmaker's office and a ...

A political prisoner in Cuba was released May 14 amid pressure from the United States and humanitarian groups.

Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández was released from prison after President Trump pardoned him, his wife said Tuesday. Hernández was sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for taking ...

The state has agreed to pay $295,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a transgender woman who was housed in an Oregon men’s prison and assigned to share a cell with a predatory sex ...

People walk within the security fence Feb. 19 at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer) WINDHAM — An inmate at the women’s prison in Windham has filed a lawsuit ...

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Tucked in a residential neighborhood of bungalows and crape myrtle trees, the federal women’s prison in Bryan, Texas, doesn’t look like a traditional lockup. The women live in dormitory-style rooms ...

People walk within the security fence Feb. 19 at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer) Maine is one of two states being investigated over their practice of ...

Pittsfield Township — Women imprisoned at the state's only women's prison, which has been under fire recently for its poor conditions, have asked the governor, legislators and Michigan's corrections ...