WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers and activists across the political spectrum called on American tech firms to stop selling ...

The law known as the Global Magnitsky Act authorizes the US president to impose sanctions on non-Americans identified as engaging in human rights violations or corruption. It’s been wielded against, ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has written to four members of the US House of Representatives who are visiting China to urge ...

Bagram, once the largest US military base in Afghanistan, has been under Taliban control since the group retook power.

A collaborative investigation found that out of 42 homicides in Mississippi prisons over the past decade, only six resulted in convictions. Denorris Howell was strangled to death at the Mississippi ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was taken to Bangkok’s Klong Prem Central Prison on Tuesday after the Supreme Court said he must serve a one-year prison term for previous ...

When Louisiana prison guards told a newly arrived Rastafarian inmate named Damon Landor that he was required to cut off the knee-length dreadlocks that he had been growing for decades as part of his ...

Each year, the Louisiana State Penitentiary holds its Angola Prison Rodeo, which has been hosted annually since 1965. The rodeo features inmates who have volunteered to compete in events, as well as a ...

Fish tanks, all-day recreation, an upgraded salad bar. Those are some of the benefits allowed to well-behaved prisoners at Lawrenceville Correctional Center, where, for the past year, the Virginia ...

Former Boston city councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson, who pleaded guilty to running a kickback scheme, was sentenced Friday to one month in prison.She was ordered to report to prison on Oct.

Jarreth Plunkett, the teen who stabbed Bobby Maher in April 2024, was sentenced to life in prison by Judge Catherine Wilking in district court Friday morning. In sum, Plunkett, 16, got life in prison ...