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Jon-Adrian ‘JJ’ Velazquez was wrongfully convicted in 1998 of murdering a retired New York police officer

Where prisons are located, the way they are built, and the health condition of prisoners means deaths will likely increase with climate change, experts say.

A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple murder — says the defense team is considering filing a damages suit against the government for ruining the man’s life and his mental health by keeping him in…

A Russian court has sentenced a man convicted over a car bombing that seriously wounded nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin to life in prison

A South Korean court has given three police officers prison sentences over their botched handling of a 2022 Halloween crush in a Seoul nightlife district that killed nearly 160 people

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao is a free man. Crypto users are now pitching a variety of projects for the crypto mogul to check out, as he revealed he will continue to invest in blockchain and other emerging technologies.

How an inmate could easily grab a prison officer's gun in a car park is being examined by the NSW state coroner.

Doros Theophanous escaped while under guard during an eight-hour pass to visit family

Exclusive: Peer insists there is still ‘everything to play for’ after government poured cold water on bill to resentence IPP prisoners

Cherrypicking what has worked from decriminalisation abroad is far preferable to building more prisons, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Manfo Asiedu planned to detonate bombs on the capital’s transport network in July 2005