The Department of Corrections also wants to shut down two state-run Community Corrections Centers, one of which is in Berks County.

Scattered across Rojava - the Kurdish-led region in Syria that spearheaded the global fight against the Islamic State - there are prisons holding thousands upon thousands of captured ISIS fighters ...

A Swampscott man who hid the fact for 25 years that he oversaw prison camps and persecuted Serb prisoners during the Bosnian War was sentenced to prison, United States Attorney Leah Foley’s ...

A naturalized U.S. citizen who’s been living in Massachusetts has been sentenced to more than five years in prison ... War refugee, when in fact he persecuted ethnic Serbs at a notorious prison ...

Federal prosecutors showed 52-year-old Kemal Mrndzic persecuted ethnic Serbs at a notorious prison camp during the war and then made false claims to win asylum in the United States. A federal jury ...

A naturalized U.S. citizen who’s been living in Massachusetts has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for falsely claiming to be a Bosnian War refugee, when in fact he persecuted ethnic ...

About 60% of staff surveyed in state prisons and jails said they developed serious health conditions ... Croxford/Civil Beat/2025) The report offers 30 recommendations from prison and jail ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke Wednesday against the Laken Riley Act, wanring that it will create "private prison camps in your town ... fundamental erosion of our civil rights.

On Jan. 21, the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, Henry Casey Camp 92 Commander Kelly Hopkins donated on behalf of the camp, a model 1860 Light Cavalry Sabre and scabbard dated 1864 ...

Ukrainian long-range drones regularly target Russian military and industrial facilities to undermine Moscow's ability to wage its full-scale war in Ukraine. Russian attacks against Ukraine injure 15 ...

The remains of a Massachusetts soldier who went missing during the Korean War in 1951 and died as a prisoner of war have been identified and will soon return home. In early 1951, U.S. Army Pfc.

A man learned Tuesday he will serve three more years behind bars for attacking a civilian employee at State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill nearly two years ago. The prison staffer ...