Civil rights advocates say a Honduran man is being held illegally at Louisiana State Penitentiary’s new immigration detention ...

Twenty members of a gang designated a "foreign terrorist organization" by the United States have escaped from detention in ...

Fifty-two inmates at a prison in the northeastern Congo city of Bunia have starved to death this year because of insufficient government funding, the United Nations and local authorities said.

Content warning: This story discusses suicide. Call the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline if you or a loved one needs help. The deputy warden was at home on his acreage 9 miles south of the Tecumseh ...

New Orleans jail escapee Derrick Groves, who spent nearly five months on the run before being recaptured in Georgia, agreed ...

In the last five years, three former prison guards at the Wyoming Women’s Center in Lusk have been convicted of sexually assaulting female inmates. One of those women is now suing in federal court, ...

Angola is close to striking debt agreements with a number of Chinese banks and government agencies, a senior government official said on Friday, though she warned that public debt ratios were likely ...