By Nelson Renteria, Brendan O'Boyle and Raul Cortes SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -The U.S. has sent hundreds of mostly Venezuelan ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia couple received the maximum sentences of decades in prison Wednesday for abusing their ...

After 35 years of failing reports and climbing suicide rates, a federal judge is appointing an outsider to propose fixes for ...

Prisons are using virtual reality to help inmates cope with loneliness in solitary confinement. VR technology provides ...

The authors, a group of former juvenile inmates, are advocating for two reform bills that would provide free prison communication.

HALT includes strict accounting of inmate time in and out of a cell and prohibits isolation for protected ... provisions and transparency in every prison and jail. "True justice requires more ...

Nantwi died two weeks after six prison officers were charged in the ... Donna Lieberman said in a statement that it was not an isolated incident. “We are extremely disturbed by the reported ...

Three months after reacting with giddiness that Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” campaign promise would make them boatloads of money, private prison executives are as optimistic as ever ― and they’re ...

The primary threats for severe weather will be from damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. Winds may gust up to 60 mph as storms come through, and there are multiple lines of showers and ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis had an "isolated breathing crisis" in hospital on Friday, the Vatican said, in a setback as the 88-year-old pontiff battles double pneumonia. Francis, 88, has been in ...

The Pope has had an "isolated" breathing crisis as he is treated in hospital for double pneumonia, the Vatican has said. An isolated coughing fit, also described as a bronchial spasm, caused the ...