The incarceration rate of Black Americans has fallen sharply in the 21st century, according to a new study, but the trend has ...

Nelson Mandela walked out of prison as a free man after 27 years, marking a golden moment in history. On this day in 1979, ...

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance is growing in viewership hours after the big game, gaining more 11 million ...

Fogel was arrested in 2021 while returning to Russia with his wife, Jane, and charged with smuggling marijuana he’d been ...

In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

Russia has released an American teacher imprisoned over what his family said was prescribed medical marijuana, but several ...

The four top national leaders of the Proud Boys, convicted for seditious conspiracy for Jan. 6 but now freed by Trump, say they have lofty goals.

None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the death of Robert Brooks.

In the early morning hours of a hot July day in 1997, a corrections officer rousted Peter Kane from his cell at the state prison in Shirley.

We've learned that Carlos Jose Ayala Morales, 43, was sent to prison after sexually assaulting multiple young Houston-area ...

South African stage legend John Kani has become known for films such as “Black Panther,” and now stars in his play “Kunene ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — A historic Black church whose Black Lives Matter sign was destroyed by members of the extremist group ...