Governor of Shelton Abbey open prison says its focus is to rehabilitate inmates and help them prepare to re-enter society, ...

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

Locals living near a picturesque marina are outraged after charming plant-adorned walls were replaced with stark ...

Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...

Mississippi Valley Publishing Managing Editor Robin Delaney, whose last day at the Democrat is Friday, works at her computer, ...

A Hamas official said Israel's Netzarim withdrawal was scheduled for Sunday under a truce that began on January 19 ...

Chinese crime syndicates operate out of properties owned by businessmen and politicians close to the ruling party of Cambodia ...

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn't obtain ...

The incarceration rate of Black Americans has fallen sharply in the 21st century, according to a new study, but the trend has ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

A Christian man was freed from an Egyptian prison last month after three years ... Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo, who is originally from Yemen, was part of a Christian Facebook group that discussed Islamic ...