An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt, said he is staging a hunger strike in London to press ...

An Indian court has sentenced a police volunteer to life in prison after finding him guilty in the rape and killing of a ...

The police had sought the death penalty in a horrific but familiar crime. Its handling by the local authorities had outraged ...

An Indiana woman who weighed 340 pounds killed her 10-year-old foster son by sitting on him for “acting up” and now will head ...

An ex-con strangled and decapitated a man who impregnated his wife while he was locked up in prison, authorities say. The ...

A convicted French drug dealer who became a social media sensation for his videos on how to cook creatively while behind bars ...

Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving ...

A Rock Hill accountant who stole more than $3 million from her employer will spend the next two years in federal prison.

A ghoulish Alabama mortuary worker was sentenced last week to 15 years in federal prison for hawking body parts — including ...

Officials said he spent large amounts of the money at restaurants, retail stores, nail salons, and furniture stores.

The Solicitor General has called child murderer Urfan Sharif’s prison sentence ‘unduly lenient’ and requested a review.

Authorities on Monday confirmed that an inmate at the central prisons had been physically assaulted over the weekend, but ...