A woman detained at the Oklahoma County jail killed herself in 2019. Her estate has reached a $250,000 settlement in federal ...

Families of missing persons have urged Syria’s new authorities to protect evidence of crimes under president Bashar al-Assad, ...

Families of missing persons have urged Syria's new authorities to protect evidence of crimes under president Bashar al-Assad, after outrage over volunteers painting over etchings on walls inside a ...

Authorities say they have traced seven homicides — two in a California prison, five on the streets of Los Angeles County — to ...

After deaths, stabbings and lawsuits, the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center hopes that a major renovation can save the ...

Dozens of Central Asian migrants are being held in Russian jails with no access to proper food as they wait for deportation ...

News of beloved journalist and TV presenter Simon Townsend's death has sent shockwaves through the Australian entertainment ...

Drones could be used to smuggle guns into jails and airlift escaping prisoners, a union warned, after they were branded a ...

The heartbroken mum of a woman who was found unresponsive in her prison cell said they were "inseparable" before she was ...

The U.N. Libya mission expressed on Tuesday its alarm over what it said was footage circulating on social media featuring "brutal torture and ill-treatment" of detainees at the Gernada detention ...

There are many journalists hiding from the stigma of mental health, addiction, or both, trying not to appear as damaged goods ...

Protestors have called for HMP Peterborough to move trans prisoner Zoe Watts to a female wing over concerns for her safety ...