WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - State prisons in the United States became more violent and nearly 50% deadlier over the past five years as authorities struggled to keep enough guards on the job, ...

Women hoping to visit their loved ones at New York prisons are being turned away after scanners pick up what they say are menstrual products. Some have had their visitation rights suspended. By Wesley ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado lawmakers voted Wednesday to send millions of dollars to the state’s overcrowded prison system, one week after a key committee rejected the funds ...

Ryan Routh, the man convicted of attempting to assassinate President Trump at his Florida golf course in 2024, has been sentenced to life in prison. The sentence came down Wednesday during a federal ...

Venezuela’s acting president has announced a proposed amnesty law that could lead to the release of hundreds of political prisoners, as well as the closure of a notorious detention center, in her ...

In the aftermath of the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces last month hundreds of Venezuelan political prisoners have been released, many of them from detention centers that ...

For weeks, Trump administration officials have been demanding more cooperation from the state of Minnesota and the city of Minneapolis in detaining and turning over people accused of being in the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carlos Julio Rojas, Javier Tarazona, Guillermo Lopez, Carlos Azuaje and Victor Castillo, who were recently released from prison, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the aftermath of the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces last month hundreds of Venezuelan political ...

Venezuela is set to release hundreds of political prisoners and close down a notorious facility as part of an amnesty bill being championed by acting President Delcy Rodriguez. “May this law serve to ...

When Stephen Miller offered his first big rollout of Donald Trump’s immigration agenda during the 2024 campaign, he demonstrated great enthusiasm for the idea of giant migrant camps. He gushed about ...

Hundreds of political prisoners in Venezuela, including opposition leaders, journalists and human rights activists, could soon be freed under an amnesty bill that the country's acting president ...