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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."

Ukraine's spy agency accused Mikhail Filiponenko of personally torturing prisoners of war.

Israel and Hamas are close to reaching a deal that would see the exchange of Palestinian prisoners for most of the Israeli women and children held hostage in Gaza — as well as the promise of a five-day truce between the chronically clashing...

About 45,000 female prisoners in Russia should be released in order to get pregnant, a far-right Kremlin lawmaker proposed.

Israel and Palestinian terrorist group Hamas have raised concerns over the lists of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners due to be released on Monday.

Gigi Hadid was blasted on social media after sharing false information about Israel.

The Jets’ offense currently looks like something they should show prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to make them confess.

Supermodel Gigi Hadid issued a groveling apology, admitting she did not “fact check” a post she made on Instagram claiming that Israel is “the only country in the world that keeps children as prisoners of war.”

NY Post readers discuss: Israel and Hamas trading hostages and prisoners during temporary cease-fire.

In a chain of messages, Pinquet asserted that he was "refusing to stop at the intended destination with the prisoners."