An old prison in Laval, Que., will be turned into affordable housing, the Government of Canada has confirmed. In a press release Saturday, federal Minister of Public Services and Procurement and ...

Before the early 1990s, people who were sentenced to 10 years in prison might be released after serving roughly half that long. That’s because of policies that allowed incarcerated individuals ...

The prison memo was issued on the same day that a new group of transgender women rushed to court to try to stop their transfer from all-female prisons to all-male facilities, saying that the move ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the communities surrounding these new jails for migrants, activists and politicians ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s impeached conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from prison on Saturday, a day after a Seoul court canceled his arrest to allow him to stand ...

Within this subset there have been some stellar prison films. Everynight, Everynight (1994) still packs a punch, and the opening and closing sections of Chopper (2000), set in prison, are the most ...

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has been sentenced to one year in prison for defying the rulings of the top international official overseeing peace in the Balkan country. The court in the ...

South Korea’s president is fighting to stay in office and out of prison after martial law fiasco. Here’s what happens next By Mike Valerio , Gawon Bae and Yoonjung Seo , CNN ...

The mother of a teenage girl stabbed to death by her father has called for his release from prison despite a court finding him guilty of their daughter's murder. Scarlett Vickers was killed in ...

A Yakima businessman and former pastor was sentenced Feb. 18 to 30 years in prison for making, possessing and sharing child sexual abuse images. David Roger Franklin, 68, pleaded guilty in October ...