The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at ...

The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.

A handful were women. So every Tuesday, the women protest against executions, chanting in the prison yard, refusing to move all night and staging hunger strikes. The campaign has spread through ...

Out in the yard, beneath a clear blue sky and uphill from devastation wrought ... faith organizations have been on the ground doing both. “Strangers, complete strangers, just showing up to ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi has called for establishing new prison complexes in Rahim Yar Khan and Lahore while reiterating his commitment to finalize recommendations of all provincial ...

Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the "human slaughterhouse", Sky News saw the conditions ... some of the prisoners deep beneath the ground. "As you walk around the outside of ...

A Naples man was sentenced to 35 years in prison after murdering his roommate and burying him on his property in Golden Gate Estates. According to the State Attorney's Office, Michael Allen ...

A former Risdon Prison inmate ... Risdon exercise yard when he “aimed a fire hose at a nest containing pre-fledgling house sparrows”. Once the birds were knocked to the ground, Bakes then ...

Daniel pleaded guilty a year ago to fatally stabbing another inmate on a Salinas Valley State Prison yard and told the judge ... “pile-drived him” into the ground, breaking his vertebrae ...

The three were convicted in April in a sprawling case that relied heavily on testimony from other inmates, guards and video of bloody prison yard attacks. Yandell, 62, was found guilty of 15 ...

The Justice Department has been ordered to pay almost $116 million to 103 women who say they were abused at the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, dubbed the "rape ...