Venezuela’s new amnesty law has started freeing some political detainees, but rights groups say the numbers stay far below government claims.

Because Louisiana has a long history of detaining inmates past their lawful release dates, state officials should heed a ...

Deaths in Kentucky prisons last year soared from 39 to 63. A Louisville lawmaker wants to establish a fatality review board.

Fired Indiana prison investigator claims wrongful termination. Appeals court says state law denying due process may be unconstitutional.

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The United States transferred 5,700 detainees held for alleged ISIS affiliation from Northeast Syria to Iraq, where they are at risk of enforced disappearance, unfair trials, torture, ill treatment, ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the transfer of 20 federal prisoners whose death sentences were commuted by former ...

Charles Flores was convicted of the January 1998 killing of Betty Black during an attempted robbery. Right from the start, he ...

"It was like the joy of clemency all over again,” Rejon Taylor, whose death sentence was commuted by Joe Biden, told Newsweek ...

Despite acknowledging a “systemic failure of due process,” Fulton judge ruled that the delay did not ultimately prejudice Leslie Singleton’s case ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences ...

A US federal judge on Wednesday temporarily halted a plan by President Donald Trump's administration to move 20 former federal death row prisoners to the country’s most restrictive correctional ...