Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has sharply reduced violence but is criticized for his authoritarian style and harsh ...

A 21-year-old man described by police as a “brutal child predator” is to serve 23 years in prison after being convicted of rape, sexual abuse, blackmail, having indecent images and assault involving ...

They are currently serving life in prison without the possibility of parole in California. A mix of new evidence and public interest has thrown the case, one that has both gripped and divided the ...

Within this subset there have been some stellar prison films. Everynight, Everynight (1994) still packs a punch, and the opening and closing sections of Chopper (2000), set in prison, are the most ...

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has been sentenced to one year in prison for defying the rulings of the top international official overseeing peace in the Balkan country. The court in the ...

Before the early 1990s, people who were sentenced to 10 years in prison might be released after serving roughly half that long. That’s because of policies that allowed incarcerated individuals ...

South Korea’s president is fighting to stay in office and out of prison after martial law fiasco. Here’s what happens next By Mike Valerio , Gawon Bae and Yoonjung Seo , CNN ...

"He told me that if I tried to escape, he would kill me." Pascaline, 22, recalls the words of her rapist at a prison in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in the early ...

Her story has been explored in the Netflix documentary series, Instagram's Worst Con Artist ... However, she didn't face any prison sentence and instead has been asked to pay her mounting fines.

The prison memo was issued on the same day that a new group of transgender women rushed to court to try to stop their transfer from all-female prisons to all-male facilities, saying that the move ...

A Yakima businessman and former pastor was sentenced Feb. 18 to 30 years in prison for making, possessing and sharing child sexual abuse images. David Roger Franklin, 68, pleaded guilty in October ...