A Supreme Court judge in Albany has temporarily restored the HALT Act, the policy that limits solitary confinement which ...

A State law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons was suspended during prison guards’ wildcat strike earlier ...

The state has paid $3.5 million to North Country businesses so far during National Guard assignment to area prisons.

Utica, N.Y. — A third New York state corrections officer has pleaded guilty in connection with the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this year at a Central New York prison. The corrections officer, ...

The notorious detention facility in Tehran, where dissidents and political prisoners are held, came under attack on June 23.

Luis Bernier has languished on Rikers Island since March 12 because he can’t get transferred to prison due to the ripples ...

Israel’s attack on Evin Prison in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Monday killed 71 people, according to Mizan, the news ...

The families of Cecile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris, two French citizens detained in Iran since 2022, issued urgent ...

Fears of a larger Middle East war began to subside Tuesday amid an uneasy ceasefire between Israel and Iran. While welcome, ...

President Trump’s bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites has come under legal scrutiny, as some suggest his decision to ...

Israel’s airstrike, writes Siamak Namazi, who was held hostage for eight years in the same prison, “did not distinguish ...