LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-President Lazarus Chakwera has pardoned twenty two prisoners as part of this year’s Christmas celebrations. The Ministry of Homeland Security announced the development in ...

This combination photo shows federal death row inmates Robert Bowers, from left, the gunman who massacred 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, Dylann Roof, who committed racist ...

Biden, a practicing Catholic, will meet with Pope Francis, who recently called for prayers for U.S. death row inmates in hopes their sentences will be commuted.Martin Luther King III, who publicly ...

The suit against the state of Louisiana follows a multiyear investigation into what federal officials say is a pattern of “systemic overdetention” that violates inmates’ rights and costs ...

Ellis County Detention Officer’s Death: Isaiah Bias, a jailer for Ellis County, was killed on-duty by an inmate, officials said. It marked just the second incident of its kind in more than 35 ...

Some words may be mispronounced. State correctional officials should tighten their requirements for restraining unruly jail inmates and improve help for those with mental illness to stem ...

A 28-year-old detention officer in Texas is dead after allegedly being attacked by an inmate while he was returning the inmate to his cell. During a news conference Tuesday, Ellis County Sheriff ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article corrected to correctly address where the inmate died. Following the death of an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility, a lawsuit’s ruling on treatment of inmates at ...

WAXAHACHIE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man being held in jail fatally assaulted a detention officer who was returning him to his cell following the one hour he was allowed out of his lockup each day ...

A judge determined that over 30 New York prison guards viciously assaulted inmates during a 2016 raid at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy. The guards attacked inmates as revenge for a ...

Marcy, NY — Dozens of New York prison guards and their supervisors brutally attacked a dorm full of unsuspecting inmates — punching, kicking and sodomizing prisoners and destroying their ...

The treatment of inmates in a prison unit for "extreme risk" criminals is cruel ... "I have also found evidence of a disproportionate use of force on prisoners as well as excessive and unjustified ...