The decision clears the way for the first death-penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay to start this summer, more than 25 years ...

Venezuela's legislature has advanced an amnesty bill proposed by acting President Delcy Rodríguez. The bill could lead to the release of hundreds of prisoners, including opposition leaders and ...

The rights activist Narges Mohammadi is protesting her continued detention, her family said. She was arrested again in ...

In the years leading up to the Civil War, Lockport had become a fulcrum point for abolitionists, according to researcher ...

The Trump administration’s impunity may feel like something new in American life. But it is not. Though the excesses are accelerating, much of what is happening now has its origins in the indefinite ...

Incarcerated Mainers can get college degrees, earn wages through remote work and vote. There’s universal access to medication for opioid use disorder in the state’s prisons, along with mental health ...

Guan Heng, a Chinese asylum seeker who exposed human rights abuses in his homeland, has been released after more than five ...

A reformed New ICE would need much better—and more—training. Congress or the president should mandate that the training ...

Don Lemon, an independent reporter, and two protesters were arrested on federal charges arising out of an anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church.

State prisons in the United States became more violent and nearly 50% deadlier over the past five years as authorities struggled to keep enough guards on the job, according to a government-funded ...

The Jewish Communal Statement Opposing the Death Penalty Bill in Israel, which went public last week, reveals the immense ...

Latest news and updates on the US protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, an African-American, during his arrest in Minneapolis.