Cuban artist and dissident exiled from country after 5 years in prison arrives in US
A famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison s...
R Kelly formally appeals to Donald Trump to commute his 31-year prison sentence
The R&B singer was found guilty of racketeering, sex trafficking and producing child abuse images, with his lawyer lobbying the US president for more ...
Diddy Sells Miami Mansion for $55 Million Amid Prison Sentence
Sean "Diddy" Combs is making real estate moves from behind bars.
As the rapper continues to serve out his four-year prison sentence on prostitution-re...
How federal prison guards stop lawsuits before they start
Prisoners are allowed to file complaints about mistreatment — but doing so often comes with retaliation. That's according to an investigation by NPR a...
Rosie O'Donnell's Prison Visit With Daughter Was Longest Talk in Years
Rosie O’Donnell is sharing insight into her relationship with her daughter.
One month after the League of Their Own star visited her daughter Chelsea ...
Pressure mounts on Texas to address brutal heat crisis in prison cells
State hit by new wrongful death lawsuit by family of Jason Wilson, who died in ‘brutally hot, un-airconditioned’ cellTexas, the state with the largest...
Poland Sentences Russian Exile to 7 Years in Prison for Spying
Igor Rogov, who has publicly opposed the Kremlin, was arrested in 2024 and later confessed to spying for Russian intelligence on regime opponents livi...
Former Wisconsin judge spared prison for obstructing ICE arrest of immigrant
Hannah Dugan was fined $5,000 for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom to evade ICE agentsA former Wisconsin judge who was convicted of f...
Sri Lanka prison riot kills 26, with more than 100 others wounded
Victims with cuts and gunshot injuries rushed to hospital after fighting between prisoners from two drug gangsClashes at a Sri Lankan jail have killed...
Prison education cuts driving drug use, self-harm and violence, says watchdog
Report by HM inspector of prisons for England and Wales comes as spending on frontline education falls by up to 50%“Brutal” cuts to prison education a...
Pastor freed from prison in China weeks after Trump requested his release
A pastor of a prominent underground church who was detained in China in October has been released, less than two months after U.S. President Donald Tr...
Founder of prominent underground church released from prison in China
Ezra Jin, founder of Zion Church, lands in the US and reunites with family who are ‘overwhelmed with joy’The founder of one of China’s most prominent ...
Seven more sentenced to prison over protest outside Texas detention center
Judge hands down 50-year sentence to defendant Ines Soto, whose wife Elizabeth was sentenced to same prison termSeven more people were sentenced to pr...
Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui sentenced to 30 years in US prison for fraud
Guo Wengui, who gained fans for criticising China’s Communist party, was found guilty in 2024 on nine charges including money launderingA US federal c...
Offenders in England and Wales who kill current or ex-partners face 10 more years in prison
Increase comes after seven-year campaign by mothers of victims for a change in the minimum sentence for domestic murderOffenders who kill their curren...
Mackenzie Shirilla Feels "Trapped in a Nightmare" in Prison, Mom Says
Mackenzie Shirilla's mom is sharing insight into her daughter's life behind bars.
After the Supreme Court of Ohio declined to hear the 21-year-old’s a...