New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated man as the new Commissioner of the city’s Department of Correction. 64-year-old Stanley Richards will be the first person who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks at a press conference in the Chancellery in Berlin. Michael Kappeler/dpa Former ...

Eighteen months ago, I walked away from the Virginia Department of Corrections with $25, no shelter, no referrals and no direction. The guard who handed me my seven-year-old personal property had ...

The death of former political prisoner Denis Sokolovsky was reported on February 22 by former prisoner Kseniya Lutskina. "A ...

A coroner says HMP Norwich may have "inadequate arrangements" for mental health support.

The footage shows ex-prison guard Bethany Dent-Reynolds embracing and kissing convicted killer Kieran Robinson before ...

An investigation is underway after an ex-prisoner died shortly after being released on licence. Daniel Daniels, 28, had been released on licence from HMP Berwyn in Wrexham part way through a ...

The cause was pancreatic cancer, his brother Randolph Howard said. Farid was a founder and a lead organizer of the organization Release Aging People in Prison, known as RAPP. His interest grew ...

Thirteen Islamists in Lebanese jails, including Saja al-Dulaimi, the ex-wife of Baghdadi, were also released. Dulaimi, fully veiled, was shown in live TV footage from the area with her three children ...