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The abandoned Islas Marias prison, once dubbed Mexico's answer to Alcatraz, was almost impossible to escape thanks to its remote island location surrounded by shark-infested waters

The incarceration rate in the United States fell in 2021 to its lowest levels since 1995 – but the U.S. continues to imprison a higher percentage of its population than almost every other country.

The Knesset on Wednesday advanced a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian captives, approving it in its preliminary reading. The primary legislation stipulates that courts will be able to impose the death penalty on those who have committed a nationalistically motivated murder of an Israeli. According to the…

A Paris court sentenced a French woman to 12 years in prison for two stays in Syria and territory controlled by the Islamic State armed group

A man who prosecuted sex offenders for Victoria Police while secretly filming a woman and teenage girl undressing will remain in prison after he lost an appeal.

Having spent decades behind jail for a murder he did not commit, Maurice Hastings is declared innocent of murder by a Los Angeles judge.

A Los Angeles man who spent more than 38 years behind bars for a 1983 murder he did not commit has been declared factually innocent

California board decide that the 78-year-old prisoner is not fit to be freed from prison yet

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One of two Trump supporters behind a plot to firebomb Sacramento’s state Democratic Party headquarters was sentenced to prison Wednesday, but sentencing for the second was delayed after his attorney asked for the courtroom to be closed over concerns for his client’s safety.