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[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] 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...
[ad_1] Federal prosecutors on Sunday recommended a prison sentence of approximately four years for a Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to assaulting an Associated Press photographer...
[ad_1] Philippine police have killed three inmates, including a top Abu Sayyaf militant, after they stabbed a jail officer and briefly held a detained former opposition...
[ad_1] By pardoning Americans with federal convictions for marijuana possession, President Joe Biden said he aimed to partially redress decades of anti-drug laws that disproportionately harmed...
[ad_1] PHILADELPHIA — The city of Philadelphia issued an apology Thursday for the unethical medical experiments performed on mostly Black inmates at its Holmesburg Prison from...
[ad_1] HOUSTON — A Texas death row inmate whose case clarified the role of spiritual advisers in death chambers nationwide is scheduled for execution Wednesday, despite...
[ad_1] LAS VEGAS — Police have arrested a convicted bombmaker who escaped from a Nevada prison where he was serving a life sentence for a deadly...