In addition to establishing impunity for police and military killers, the law sets the stage for a rupture with international ...

Critics warn the law would hinder the search for truth about the victims of Peru’s decades-long armed conflict.

El Salvador's president is cracking down on all dissent while he's popular, in order to hold onto power when he no longer is. The post Bukele Is Using a Familiar Pattern to Dismantle El Salvador's ...

A 75-year-old previously disbarred Honolulu attorney pleaded not guilty today to 22 felony charges that include forgery and theft of approximately $750,000, intended for three charities, from the ...

Two more former prison guards have been charged with sexually abusing female inmates at a federal prison in Dublin which became known as "the rape club," authorities announced Thursday.

The notorious director of a brutal Iranian jail escaped just before airstrikes, after Israeli sources contacted his son with a warning: have your father open the prison doors, or he will be targeted.

Kristina Jacobson was sentenced to life in prison without opportunity for parole Thursday after being found guilty of raping an infant and other sex crimes.

The world painted by Kiyoshi Kurosawa is one of disaffection. The Japanese auteur has made a career of identity thrillers, ...

The idea that Franco somehow escaped prison time for dating a 14-year-old while sending money to her mother is astonishing and not likely to be so easily dismissed by MLB officials who will ...

A Blue Grass man will now serve nearly two decades in prison for producing child pornography.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Some of the gangs South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley listed as tied to violence at the men’s prison in Sioux Falls have the largest gang presence in … ...

Shanteari Young, a Baltimore County daycare owner who shot her husband when she learned he was sexually abusing children, has been released from prison.