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Spain will offer a path to citizenship for 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners who were recently released from prison and many of whom were sent to the United States on Thursday, a spokesman for Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs told CNN.

CNN's Nick Paton Walsh investigates Russia's use of prisoners to fight the war in Ukraine.

A new book by Uyghur journalist Gulchehra Hoja details her efforts to expose the oppression of her minority, Muslim community by Chinese authorities. Her work to reveal the truth almost got her family killed.

A new single released by a choir of men who are in prison for their participation in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, features a recording by former President Donald Trump as the backtrack.

Marta Perdomo agonizes day and night for her two sons Jorge and Nadir, jailed in Cuba for taking part nearly two years ago in the largest anti-government protests since the 1959 revolution. A call she says she received in late February from Cuba's...

Two Virginia inmates busted out of jail and headed to a local IHOP after using a toothbrush to dig a tunnel through their cell wall Monday. The prisoners, 37-year-old John Garza and 43-year-old Arley Nemo, were captured at the pancake joint’s...

Extrajudicial executions, rape, forced abortions, jail without trial, torture, starvation rations that leave prisoners so hungry some turn to eating insects.

More than 100 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been released as part of a major Easter exchange with Russia.

Murdaugh, 54, was convicted last month of killing his wife and son on his family’s sprawling South Carolina estate in June 2021.

A Japanese merchant ship that sunk during World War II while carrying more than 1,000 Allied prisoners of war has been found.

President Biden commuted the prison sentences of 31 federal inmates Friday, while leaving almost all of the estimated 2,700 federal pot prisoners behind bars.

The US is looking to use Russian prisoners held in other countries as bartering chips in its quest to free Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.

Nearly half of the Ukrainians held by Russian troops in detention centers in Kherson encountered widespread torture and sexual violence, according to a new report.

Iran has put five Iranian-American prisoners to house arrest, a U.S.-based lawyer said Thursday, a move coming as Tehran for months has suggested a prisoner swap was possible between it and Washington in exchange for billions of dollars frozen in...

City officials flagged the proposal to shelter asylum seekers in the defunct federal Metropolitan Correctional Center lockup in Lower Manhattan in an Aug. 9 letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration.

The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt, is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard detail."

The five prisoners Iran has said it seeks are mostly held over allegedly trying to export material to Iran.

The freed Americans include U.S.-Iranian dual citizens Siamak Namazi, 51, and Emad Sharqi, 59, both businessmen, and Morad Tahbaz, 67, an environmentalist who also holds British nationality.

"The instructions were to kidnap elderly women and children … clear the houses and kidnap as many prisoners as possible,” one jihadist told an interrogator.

“I think we need a pause,” President Biden said in response to the interruption. “A pause means give time to get the prisoners out."