Among the many recommendations made by former justice secretary David Gauke is one that has my ethical hackles up: mandatory ...

Eugene Jarecki's Julian Assange documentary 'The Six Billion Dollar Man' contains few extraordinary revelations, but it's ...

A chartered removal flight with eight men convicted of crimes in the United States, including one from Iowa, took off for South Sudan.

The of evaluating criminal rehabilitation is left to individuals who spend less time doing that job than one might spend engaged in a hobby.

Britain is considering mandating the use of chemical castration for sex offenders under an overhaul of the justice system ...

A Thai court on Thursday ordered self-exiled former premier Yingluck Shinawatra to pay 10 billion baht ($305 million) in ...

On, Dec. 30, 1997, Ricardo Reyes, who was 20, along with his co-defendant, Israel Perez, who was 19, robbed and killed ...

Wissam Ben Yedder (34) was on trial after being accused of psychological violence by his wife (the two are currently in the ...

As UK prisons teeter on the brink of overcrowding, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is exploring bold measures to ease the ...

A woman accused of murdering a 17-year-old in Omaha last year was sentenced on Wednesday. Earlier this year, Kianna Opal, 19, pleaded “no contest” to seco ...

A Belarusian man has died in prison while serving a sentence for insulting the country's authoritarian president, a human rights group said Thursday, adding to a growing number of political prisoners ...

After 10 inmates escape from Orleans Parish Prison, Sheriff Susan Hutson is under fire for leadership failures, prompting a pause in her re-election efforts.