The Brazilian woman charged with poisoning three of her relatives with an arsenic-laced Christmas cake has been found dead in ...

The Shell is the debut novel of Syrian author and former political prisoner Mustafa Khalifa. It is arguably one of the most ...

Christian Walker, 44, died at High Desert State Prison ... After being taken back to the prison, he was found unresponsive in his cell on the day of his death. According to the lawsuit, he ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Northeast Syria, he said, is enduring a silent tragedy. The region is struggling to cope with the influx of internally ...

A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday held that federal law allows multiple indigent prisoners to join in a lawsuit as long as they each pay the filing fee. The panel ...

During the wildest spectacle in ag history, Dwight “Tractor Man” Watson held D.C. hostage for three days from his cab.

This gave the Secretary of State for Justice ... declaration that the 'prison is unsafe' is of huge concern to the POA; our members at this Prison are being exposed to high levels of serious ...

A Southern California teenager was sentenced to four years in prison for making threats against ... It says most are handled by local and state law enforcement agencies, but that the FBI often ...

She was discovered by soldiers patrolling impoverished Abu Ghraib -- the town notorious for its high-security prison -- and shuttled ... butter hues of dust and desert. The streets are under ...