SIS Forum said the caning sentence for both couples is scheduled to be carried out on June 7 at Marang Prison. It said recent ...

Pastor Ezekiel Raj (second right) shares a warm embrace with Masjid An-Nuriah imam Fakhrul Hasan, alongside mosque committee members after breaking fast together. At a traffic lights junction along ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating after a death row inmate was killed at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano on Friday. Convicted murderer Mario ...

President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a U.S. tourist destination because it had become too costly ...

ROTAN, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Rotan Independent School District (ISD) is calling for a bond election similar to one that voters turned down last November, with no votes and a slight margin of victory.

The federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing the notorious "rape club" women's prison in Dublin, Califorina, and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay ...

If a judge resentences the Menendez brothers, their lives behind bars in the past 34 years will play a role on whether or not they are paroled. Rehabilitation officials praised the Menendez brothers ...

Today’s prisons often resemble medieval “oubliettes”, in which offenders are locked up to punish them for their actions and to protect society. Research shows this approach can worsen, rather than ...

In 1971, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted a notorious experiment in which he randomly divided college students into two groups, guards and prisoners, and set them loose in a ...

Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm gave an update Wednesday on construction of the $1.25 billion, 4,000-bed prison in Elmore County. Hamm said the prison is about 40% complete.

SINGAPORE, Sept 28 — A young woman who never got to know her biological father because he was in jail for drug offenses decided to reach out and connect with him. However, as... Penang exco says TNB ...

A prison outside Las Vegas will become Nevada’s new maximum-security facility, with the state’s highest-risk offenders being transferred there from the prison in Ely in eastern Nevada that currently ...