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An Israeli airstrike on Iran’s capital last month killed five inmates at Evin prison and resulted in the escape of several others, Iranian media reported Saturday. The ...

A 17-year-old Palestinian boy, once known as the world’s youngest freed prisoner, was killed Saturday in an Israeli airstrike ...

The scene was surreal from the jump. There we were, a gang of eight reporters scrunched together in the claustrophobic lobby ...

Prison officers carried out “inappropriate and disproportionate” restraint on a prisoner moments before his death, an inquest has found.

The Sisters of the Good Shepherd of Divine Providence support detained women both spiritually and concretely, in cooperation ...

During the spring of what should have been her seventh-grade year, Winona Fletcher became one of the most notorious murderers in Anchorage history for her role in the 1985 killings of three elderly ...

The Peoria County re-entry program visited the Peoria County Jail to give teenage girls in the Elite program a glimpse of ...

“This isn’t ‘Scared Straight,’” Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins said. “This is truth. (The female inmates) were in your position, but you’re being given something they didn’t have. People are ...

ELITE Incarcerated women helping teens ...

A Ghanaian lady and TikToker, Adjoarh Cilla, has opened up about seeing controversial televangelist Naa Agradaa at the Nsawam ...

YWCA McLean County's Labyrinth program has received a $505,704 state grant to provide services to men and women being ...