A French court found Marine Le Pen guilty Monday in an embezzlement case but didn't immediately say what her sentence might ...

The boss of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel has never set foot in a Mexican prison, and is defined by the legend of a drug trafficker who rose from the bottom, relying more on violence than on osten ...

The families of Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador maintain their innocence and say they were targeted by federal agents ...

Three people have been arrested after the president's golf resort in South Ayrshire, Scotland, was targeted by vandals.

Ohio should abandon the death penalty—not just because it’s morally flawed, but because it’s broken, costly, and being used as a political tool by those, like Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, more ...

Le Pen and her co-defendants face up to 10 years in prison. They can appeal, which would lead to another trial.

LEAVENWORTH—A man recently indicted on drug charges died over the weekend in the federal prison in Leavenworth. Just after 7 ...

The U.N. considers solitary confinement torture. Yet it remains widespread in U.S. prisons and jails, where 122,000 people ...

After an exemption that lasted eight months, the Ethiopian authorities are once again demanding monthly visa fees from Sudanese refugees. Most cannot pay the colossal sums demanded of them in the ...

A last-ditch effort from attorneys of a death row inmate argue that his beliefs about being a "sovereign citizen" could be considered insanity and should spare him from execution.

Avery Richard Smith, a former corrections officer in Berkeley County, South Carolina, has been sentenced to 10 years in ...

Gary Anderson hit Domingo Tapia for reasons never explained, sending Mr. Tapia into a coma and Mr. Anderson to prison. Mr.