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[ad_1] OAKLAND, Calif. — The former warden of an abuse-plagued federal women’s prison known as the “rape club” went on trial Monday, accused of molesting inmates...
[ad_1] CAIRO — Egypt announced late Thursday the release of 30 political activists from jail, the latest in a series of mass releases from detention amid...
[ad_1] ALBANY, N.Y. — Sexual assault victims in New York will get a one-time opportunity to sue over their abuse starting Thursday, under a new law...
[ad_1] A Delaware business owner has been sentenced to 30 days of incarceration for storming the U.S. Capitol after seeing the riot erupt on a Tinder...
[ad_1] DES MOINES, Iowa — An judge on Friday set a hearing for January to consider whether to order prison for an 18-year-old sex-trafficking victim in...
[ad_1] DES MOINES, Iowa — An 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who killed her rapist was being held in an Iowa jail Wednesday and could face a...
[ad_1] HOUSTON — A Texas inmate whose lawyers say has a history of mental illness is set to be executed Wednesday for killing his mother and...
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines — Philippine authorities filed murder complaints on Monday against the top prisons official and an aide, accusing them of masterminding the killing of...
[ad_1] MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A former corrections officer on Friday compared Alabama prisons to a “third world country with a concrete floor” and said he believes...
[ad_1] In California, lawyers accused staff at the Los Angeles County jail of chaining mentally ill detainees to chairs for days at a time. In West...
[ad_1] SEATTLE — A divided Washington Supreme Court on Thursday approved a registered sex offender’s application to become an attorney in the state. Zachary Leroy Stevens,...
[ad_1] SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Three former Illinois prison guards face life behind bars after the 2018 fatal beating of a 65-year-old inmate in a case marked...
[ad_1] OAKLAND, Calif. — One of five workers accused of sexually abusing inmates at a federal women’s prison in California pleaded guilty on Thursday, prosecutors said....
[ad_1] OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma is suing the Federal Bureau of Prisons for custody of a state death row inmate whom the bureau is refusing to...
[ad_1] SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Jesús Joya says his brother was “special” — at 45, he was childlike, eager to please. He was as far...
[ad_1] NEW ORLEANS — A controversial transfer of juvenile prisoners to a temporary facility at Louisiana’s sprawling high security prison farm for adult convicts involves a...
[ad_1] COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the death sentence Wednesday for an inmate who argued her attorneys didn’t properly raise in her defense...
[ad_1] CAIRO — A towering blaze at a notorious prison housing political prisoners and anti-government activists in Iran’s capital injured at least nine people but was...
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines — Human rights activists pressed their call Monday for the immediate release of a former Philippine opposition senator after she was taken hostage...
[ad_1] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The sound of apparent gunshots and explosions echoed early Monday through the streets of a western Iranian city, one of...