The inside story of some of Australia's most famous - and infamous - killers is revealed with the shock news that one might be freed.

Most of us came here with nothing. No skills, no direction. Now we know that when we leave, we can survive without going back to crime ...

Indiana bills about assigning inmates by biological sex in prisons and addressing abortion pills passed out of separate committees.

A lawsuit in California has kept incarcerated people who were granted their freedom in prison for an indeterminate period.

Baby killer Lucy Letby looks dazed in distrubing new footage showing the moment police swarm into her home to question her.

Women cluster in small groups, hands twisting hair, brushes sweeping across faces, teaching one another new techniques.

Assaults on correctional officers in New Jersey’s state prisons are not an aberration, but part of a trend both officials and ...

The United Nations said on Thursday it was taking management responsibility for vast camps in Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children associated with Islamic State, after the rapid ...

Kurdish women fighting Isis were once feted in the US and UK media. But support for the Kurds of north and east Syria - now ...

A first-person account of repeated arrests, UAPA charges and jail life in West Bengal, revealing how protest is punished ...

A proposed state law offers non-violent offenders the chance to change ‘their lives, support their families and pay restitution to those they’ve harmed.’ ...