By Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) -When Ukrainian Leniie Umerova crossed into Russia on her way to see her ailing father ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. He is a powerful figure in the Middle East ...

Tonight, in apartments across Tehran, small groups gather in whispered worship, their soft songs rising through the darkness ...

A Supreme Court judge in Albany has temporarily restored the HALT Act, the policy that limits solitary confinement which ...

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were ...

The ferry ride out to Alcatraz Island is, as ever, peak San Francisco cold. Even on this sunny June day, it’s cold. Even with ...

A judge has issued an injunction blocking New York’s corrections department from suspending parts of the HALT Act, a law ...

Lenard Vare, a prison consultant, former warden and author of "Elephant Keepers: Reflections of a Prison Warden," joins ...

Jurors cleared Dominic Adeyemi, 18, of fatally stabbing school friend Tawana Choruma, 19, in Netley last December. He returned to the dock on July 2 at Southampton Magistrates' Court facing a charge ...

A State law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons was suspended during prison guards’ wildcat strike earlier ...

A state law that bars the extended use of solitary confinement in state prisons, and mandates hours of out-of-cell time and rehabilitative programming, hasn't been enforced equally at every facility ...

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...