Every April and October, the Louisiana State Penitentiary hosts the last remaining prison rodeo in the nation. Brining ...

Every Sunday in October and one weekend in April, dozens of inmates in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola volunteer to ...

Boyd’s spiritual adviser, Rev. Jeff Hood, who was in the chamber with him, described the execution as “torture.” ...

On a night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1996, Marcus Cheffen robbed Don Allison at gunpoint, shooting him in the leg and ...

San Antonio man beat 12-year-old son to death. Here's his prison sentence. My Dad Was Gay — But Married To My Mom For 64 Years. As She Died, I Overheard Something I Can't Forget.

Acts of protest from people behind detention walls have never stopped. In the coming decades, migrants have demanded that lawyers and immigrant rights organizations hear and document their stories, ...

In 1979 South Africa was a prosperous but troubled nation. Social tensions were high, the country was under international ...

A Cuban man deported to the African nation of Eswatini earlier this year has begun a hunger strike to protect his detention ...

More than 10,000 people a week are released from America’s jails and prisons with the hope of starting a new life.

Bishop Maurício Agostinho Camuto of the Catholic Diocese of Caxito in Angola has blamed the country’s judicial system for ...

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, highlighted a series of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...