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The judiciary’s Mizan news agency offered the new toll, saying the prisoners had succumbed to their injuries Sunday from the incident.

Ukraine secured the release of more than 100 women held as prisoners of war in a swap with Russia on Monday. Kyiv released 110 Russians in return for 108 Ukrainian women in what Ukrainian presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak called Ukraine’s...

The activists say Biden's Oct. 6 mass pardon of about 6,500 people charged federally with pot possession was "misleading."

"Evin's on fire! It's going up in flames, and they're shooting at the prisoners inside!" This was one of the flurry of messages I received late October 15 from Iranian activists and fellow survivors of the country's most notorious prison.

As tensions between Ukraine and Russia continue to escalate, Putin points to the US while Russia sends prisoners with diseases to the front line of war, according to Ukraine's military intelligence. CNN's Fred Pleitgen has the details.

“I believe this transfer will expose me to the likelihood of being assaulted or killed by other prisoners,” Raniere whined in an affidavit filed Thursday.

A British ambassador, an Australian economist and a Japanese journalist are reportedly set to be released by Myanmar's ruling military junta under an amnesty -- along with more than 6,000 other prisoners.

A Manhattan federal judge dealt a blow to advocates for Rikers Island prisoners on Thursday, barring the Legal Aid Society from requesting a federal takeover of the Big Apple’s troubled jail system.

IKEA furniture was allegedly produced by prisoners in Belarus penal colonies under forced labor conditions, according to a new report by the French non-profit investigative journalism network Disclose.

The US Census Bureau counts incarcerated felons as residents of correctional facilities, instead of their home communities. That's fundamentally wrong, and at odds with the Census' duty to provide a true picture of the nation.

CNN travels to an undisclosed location near the Russian border to witness the arrival of two buses carrying sixty Ukrainian prisoners that released in a swap with Russia. CNN's Will Ripley has the exclusive report.

“I wanted to be a cop," said "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Dolores Catania. "I began in a state county sheriff’s office transporting prisoners to jail right from court."

Inmates at a prison north of Barcelona have produced thousands of clay figurines of world leaders and celebrities with their pants down and defecating, in keeping with a tradition from the north eastern Catalonia region of Spain.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has called on Myanmar's ruling military junta to release all political prisoners, including deposed State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and former President Win Myint, in its first resolution passed on the...

Adnan Syed, the subject of the hit crime podcast “Serial” whose murder conviction was vacated earlier this year, has been hired by Georgetown University to help assist recently released prisoners and help those who are incarcerated.

A Rikers Island correction officer was attacked by an inmate last month -- and is now calling for prisoners to face more serious punishments for sexually assaulting guards.

Myanmar's military government will release 7,012 prisoners under an amnesty to mark the country's independence day, state broadcaster MRTV reported on Wednesday, as the junta chief praised some countries for maintaining support for his nation.

The pardon approved by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei came with conditions, which the measure would not apply to any of the numerous dual nationals held in Iran.