Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons
Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other ...
Prison treatment program for Idaho monkey killer
An Idaho man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo last fall and brutally beating to death one of two Patas monkeys has been ordered to spend up to ...
UK court jails 4 Lulzsec hackers for cyberattacks
Four young computer hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets from the CIA to Sony Pictures and Rupert Murdoch's News International were ...
Inmate who killed Wash. guard sentenced to death
A Washington state judge has sentenced an inmate to death for killing a state corrections officer in a prison chapel two years ago. Byron Scherf is ...
Calif. struggles with experiment to shift inmates
Gov. Jerry Brown pushed a novel approach through the Legislature two years ago to dramatically reduce California's prison population in response to ...
2 inmates charged in Mo. with attempted kidnapping
Two inmates who fled a Kansas prison face several charges in Missouri where they're accused of trying to ambush the officers pursuing them and of ...
Northern Ireland reserves jail space for G-8 riots
Northern Ireland security chiefs say arrested troublemakers at the G-8 summit next month may be housed in a prison wing and in an abandoned British ...
Zimbabwe youth leader in jail for Mugabe slur
A young political activist who compared Zimbabwe's president to a lame donkey will spend another week in jail, his attorney said Tuesday.
California prison crowding plan still falls short
Underlying California's attempts to meet a federal court order for reducing its prison population is an unsettling question: Will the public be in ...
PM's youth leader in jail for Mugabe slur
A lawyer for a youth leader in the Zimbabwe prime minister's party says he is in jail for referring to the nation's longtime ruler as "a limping ...
Gadhafi's son appears in Libya court; case delayed
Wearing a sky-blue safari suit and a pair of sandals, the imprisoned son of slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi made his second court appearance this year ...
IG: unclear standards for compassionate release
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons lacks clear standards on when to grant compassionate release to inmates with terminal illnesses and limited life ...
Sex-offender registries: Should kids be listed?
Government authorities should end the practice of placing juveniles' names on publicly accessible sex-offender registries, Human Rights Watch says in ...
Inmate-removal order complicates Calif prison plan
Already facing a potential contempt order, Gov. Jerry Brown now must leap another hurdle to meet a court-ordered deadline this week to say how he will ...
China jails more than 1,400 in lending crackdown
Chinese authorities have sentenced more than 1,400 people to prison terms of at least five years for involvement in underground lending in a crackdown ...
Judge: Limiting inmates' mail unconstitutional
A federal judge in Oregon has determined limiting inmates' mail to only postcards is unconstitutional, throwing into question the legality of a ...
Federal government reviewing prison phone charges
The Congressional Black Caucus pressed the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday to move swiftly to cut the costs that prison inmates and ...
Taliban say foreign prisoners in good health
A group of foreign civilians captured in eastern Afghanistan when their helicopter made an emergency landing are in good health, the Taliban said on ...
Arkansas turns to different lethal injection drug
After surrendering its supply of a lethal injection drug to federal agents in 2011, Arkansas turned to a somewhat surprising place to look for another ...
After long period of quiet, Guantanamo grows tense
The morning routine started before dawn with a prisoner chanting the Muslim call to prayer through a small opening in the heavy steel door of his cell ...
President: Israel to release ailing Palestinian
Israel's president says he has approved the release of an ailing Palestinian prisoner on humanitarian grounds. Shimon Peres noted in a statement that ...
Brazen escape lands French bandit on Interpol list
Redoine Faid's escape from a French prison landed him on Interpol's most wanted list Monday, two days after he took four guards hostage and used ...
Inmates, orchestra members perform behind bars
Strains of classical music echoed on Sunday — not inside an august concert hall — but in a bleak Chicago jail where the mostly teenage boys await ...
In New Orleans, political brawl over police, jail
A political brawl has broken out between the mayor and a sheriff who runs the city jail, which has come under scrutiny for a video showing inmates ...
Correction: Israel-Palestinians story
In an April 11 story about a Palestinian-American teenager held in an Israeli jail, The Associated Press misidentified one of the interviewees.
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