LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Menendez brothers will make their cases for parole starting Thursday, marking the closest they’ve been to winning freedom from prison since their convictions almost 30 years ago ...

The changes affect both individuals as well as entire units under the Persons Permanently Bound to Secrecy (PPBS) provisions.

Rami Hammouri's attorney says the Hudson man's case "is a cautionary tale about self-deportation." His wife Emily described feeling "helpless." ...

Prison system was days from ‘total meltdown’ three times under last Tory government, review finds Labour’s justice secretary Shabana Mahmood says the report ‘lays bare the disgraceful way ...

Dame Anne Owers, former chief inspector of prisons, wrote in her 72-page report titled ‘Independent Review of Prison Capacity’ that the overcrowded system was “in crisis” between autumn ...

A veteran correctional lieutenant is taking legal action against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, alleging abuse from fellow officers.

England’s prison network came within days of collapse on multiple occasions between autumn 2023 and the summer of 2024, according to a new report that chronicles 18 years of capacity crises in ...

A Canadian County judge sentenced a man, facing allegations of rape, to 10 years in prison and a decade more on probation for violating the terms of a previous probation agreement.

A Canadian County judge sentenced a man, facing allegations of rape, to 10 years in prison and a decade more on probation for violating the terms of a previous probation agreement.

A Canadian prison inmate serving a three-year sentence was hit with a new murder rap in the jailhouse broomstick beating of notorious serial killer Robert Pickton. Martin Charest, 52, was locked ...

Canadian man gets 2.5 years in prison for 'elaborate scheme' using his mother's identity to steal more than $420,000 from Social Security over 30 years. But how common is this, actually?

Simon Rolston is the author of Prison Life Writing: Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U.S. Prison System. Once, many years ago, when I was visiting a jail outside Edmonton, a guard told me ...