The Brazilian woman charged with poisoning three of her relatives with an arsenic-laced Christmas cake has been found dead in ...

A group of men, who have dubbed themselves The Brotherhood, decided the best way to help others caught up in jail is to bail ...

A woman suspected of killing three members of the same family by poisoning a Christmas cake has been found dead in her prison cell in Brazil. Deise Moura dos Anjos was found without vital signs during ...

Deise Moura dos Anjos' partner Diego is said to have sent a lawyer to the jail in Guaiba near the southern Brazilian city of ...

He was jailed for life after he shot Olivia and injured her mum, Cheryl, as he chased a fellow drug dealer into their home.

A centenarian in New York had one wish for her birthday -- to go to jail. Two days after Ms Loretta turned 104, she visited ...

When journalist Peter Greste was languishing in a Cairo prison cell, he could little imagine that one day, Richard Roxburgh ...

Matthew Heath has an idea of what life in prison was like for Marc Fogel. Heath, a former U.S. Marine, was wrongfully ...

A famous Palestinian-owned bookstore in East Jerusalem was raided by Israeli police, stoking fears of increased censorship.

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) plans to veto a bill that would prevent the state’s prison system from collaborating with ...