Restaurateurs all across the United States have turned decommissioned or disused jails, holding cells, and prisons into ...

Detainees in ICE custody may participate in voluntary work programs within detention facilities, according to ICE policy.

Thai prisoners are being forced to make fishing nets for private companies under threat of punishment including beatings and delayed release, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has found.

For three decades, the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center was moored to the banks of Hunts Point, serving as an overflow facility for Rikers Island.

The RSO Huskies for Opportunities in Prison Education (HOPE) placed stickers around campus aimed to draw attention to UW’s use of furniture made by inmates, a process they say is exploitative. HOPE ...

Contrary to what you were told in high school, slavery did not end in 1865 with ratification of the 13th Amendment. It merely was transferred out of the hands of private citizens and placed in control ...

MANPOWER AND MONEY TO IMPLEMENT HARD LABOR SENTENCES. HOUSE REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS PUSHING TO BRING BACK HARD PRISON LABOR AS AN OPT IN FOR CONVICTED OFFENDERS SAY THE KIND OF WORK THEY WANT INMATES TO ...

STILLWATER — Outrage has erupted in this college community an hour north of Oklahoma City after a high school student who faced years of incarceration for sexual offenses against two victims was ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A Winters, Texas, man and former candidate for Runnels County commissioner was sentenced to 16 years in prison Thursday in the sexual abuse of a young family member in Woodway.

The wife of the founder of Par Funding, a fraudulent and now-defunct Philadelphia-based lending firm, was sentenced Thursday to one day in jail and 60 days of house arrest for dodging about $1.6 ...

BRUSSELS, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The European Union adopted its 19th package of Russia sanctions on Thursday, banning Russian liquefied natural gas imports and targeting entities ranging from Chinese ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Attorney General Peter Neronha said that the son of late mobster Frank “Bobo” Marrapese was sentenced to life in prison for the 2019 murder of his ex-girlfriend. 46-year-old ...