The oubliette was an extremely torturous type of dungeon from the medieval era. Keep reading to find out more about how they ...

El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the US for entering the country illegally and to house some of the country's violent criminals - even if they're American citizens. US Secretary ...

Extensive evidence shows the government’s plan to legislate mandatory minimum sentences for hate crimes, including ...

Scotland Yard’s Victorian history is a captivating tale of law enforcement evolution and forensic science breakthroughs. Simon Read, author of Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force ...

HMP Glasgow, to be built at Provanmill, south of Royston Road, is set to replace Victorian HMP Barlinnie after it was deemed ...

Daniel Khalife's spying case had not received much attention until he broke out of prison on the underbelly of a food ...

Hamas released three Israeli hostages and Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, the first day of a ceasefire suspending a 15-month-old war that has devastated the Gaza Strip and ...

President Trump defended his decision to pardon most of the Jan. 6 rioters after the release of the first prisoners got underway. The Trump administration also ordered all federal employees hired ...

On the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump reversed former President Joe Biden’s executive order on private prisons. Biden’s order had barred contracts between the Department of Justice ...

Meanwhile, a video of the released Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian woman prisoner leader, shows her struggling to walk—a contrast to the image of her before she was kidnapped by Israeli occupation ...

Two Stroudsburg brothers serving prison sentences for assaulting law enforcement officers in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were the first two prisoners released after President ...