Qarase has threatened to resign before allowing ... The president has the power to commute Speight's death sentence to life in prison or to even pardon him. The death sentence in Fiji is usually ...

Five men sentenced to 100 years in prison in a drive-by shooting at police after a prison breakout in Juárez, Mexico.

The Supreme Court on Friday sided with federal prosecutors who moved to tack extra prison time onto the sentence of a Genovese crime family associate known in New York as “Fat Sal” who was convicted ...

Recently, we featured stories from formerly incarcerated people who shared the things about prison that most people don't realize. The responses were honest, sobering, and, at times, completely ...

This week government figures are likely to show the prison population back to where it was before the last early release scheme. But even though hundreds of prisoners have served only 40% of ...

An inmate died in a New York prison as guards at institutions across the state continue their strike, which is now in its second week. Jonathon Grant, 61, died over the weekend at one of the ...

An old prison in Laval, Que., will be turned into affordable housing, the Government of Canada has confirmed. In a press release Saturday, federal Minister of Public Services and Procurement and ...

Before the early 1990s, people who were sentenced to 10 years in prison might be released after serving roughly half that long. That’s because of policies that allowed incarcerated individuals ...

Vincent McCurtis, of Branchville in southern Indiana’s Perry County, was sentenced on Monday in Marion Superior Court 27 to a total of 79 years in prison. He’d been convicted in January of ...

TORRINGTON — A Danbury man was sentenced to five years in prison this week for starting a fire at a New Milford apartment complex two years ago, court records show. Michael Davis, 30 ...

By Jay Root and Jan Ransom An inmate at a New York State prison was pronounced dead on Saturday after being found unresponsive in his cell, state officials said. The inmate, Jonathan Grant ...