WASHINGTON—A hearing of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) spotlighted Azerbaijan’s campaign of ...

The country's steadily declining births has Kim Jong Un worried, with earlier reports describing crackdowns on secret ...

The phased closure of Minnesota Correctional Facility–Stillwater has been confirmed by state officials on Thursday. The closure of Minnesota's second largest prison will take place over the next ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ May 9 The Washington Post says Donald Trump is destroying programs that help prepare for natural disasters President Donald ...

Workers in NJ group homes provide critical care. But chronic understaffing, low pay and poor prep put them — and vulnerable residents — in jeopardy.

The US has long had the world’s largest prison population by a wide margin ... They are, and always have been, a soft power organ of the US State Department that uses the thin patina of ...

At the prison population ... percentage points, the largest increase of any return type.” While overcrowding was the very issue that led to measures like Prop 57, state officials have shuttered ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A Cranston man will spend two decades in federal prison following one of Rhode Island’s largest fentanyl ... enough to kill the entire population of Rhode Island ...

The last thing Nicholas Collins remembered was his head falling to the prison's concrete floor, his sister said. When he awoke, he was covered in blood. Collins, a former Tennessee state trooper ...

One year after Harris County criminal defendant Jaleen Anderson died in a Louisiana prison ... into the out-of-state lockups holding Texas’ growing jail population. But Texas officials are ...

As California’s prison population surged ... The punishment was severe: He was sent to a special supermax unit at the state’s highest-security prison, Pelican Bay. The facility was designed ...