A dramatic decrease in the number of people in prison being granted parole and a slew of recent laws that lengthen sentences ...

On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, new death penalty law exacerbates a painful reality for those with imprisoned loved ones.

Polis is now proposing expanding the state’s correctional system by reopening at least one, but maybe two, prisons. Without ...

Criminal justice reform is far less effective for an incarcerated American than education, which would have prevented prison ...

The sentencing trial for Tanner Horner is on hold until Wednesday after a week of harrowing testimony and graphic evidence ...

I helped build a punitive criminal justice system. Decades later, this system is failing this country’s aging prisoners. We ...

A court in a Dakar suburb sentenced a 24-year-old laborer to six years in prison and fined him $3,300 for 'acts against ...

In February, the 22-year-old pleaded guilty to two charges as part of a plea agreement after having four separate cases ...

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has made himself heard again from inside the United State's most restrictive federal prison, this ...

The last execution in Washington state took place in 2010.

The punishment was the latest fallout in a case that involved a businessman blamed for imperiling the future of the fabled ...