A woman acquitted of homicide in a 2020 shooting outside a McKeesport bar but convicted of conspiring to commit the crime is ...

Women are often imprisoned for nonviolent crimes; their pathways into prison reflect high rates of childhood trauma.

Bevan, 33, was discovered dead in his cell at HMP Wakefield where he was serving a life sentence for murdering his partner's ...

Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, ...

After five years jailed under UAPA, activist-scholar Hany Babu speaks on freedom, caste, faith and state power in Modi’s India.

Belarusian street protest leader Maria Kolesnikova and Nobel Prize winner Ales Bialiatski walked free on Saturday with 121 other political prisoners released in an unprecedented US-brokered ...

Under pressure from consent decrees, lawsuits and grand jury recommendations, Southern California counties take measures to ...

"It's a feeling of incredible happiness," says political prisoner Maria Kolesnikova, freed after more than five years.

Tennessee has executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection for the 1988 rape and murder of a 20-year-old college student ...

The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has announced a special investigation into conditions inside Colorado ...

Listen here for this year's Prisoncast! holiday show for conversations on grief, money and spending the holidays away from ...