Ashik Desai was the star witness against his bosses in a trial last year, the Chicago Tribune reports. Other news is on Optum layoffs, Allina Health, the Mayo Clinic, and more.

Fujimori’s authoritarian streak lives on in Peru, even in those who claim to be against the former leader’s political ...

Junior Fellow Spencer Weinreich sat down with FM to discuss the history of solitary confinement, the meaning of his tattoos, ...

Under federal law, there are no do-overs once a guilty plea has been entered and accepted. But do our politicians care?

One in every 100 people in Louisiana, the state New Orleans calls home, is incarcerated. Doing time. Calling a concrete cell ...

China handed a nine-year prison term to a Taiwanese political activist convicted of “separatism,” a rare sentence that prompted Taiwan to warn its people about the dangers of traveling across ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. "O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and ...

DOC leaders want lawmakers to see how much it would cost to repair or replace the state prison in Salem, saying it's "oppressive" and aging.

A man known to frequent Worthing and the ‘surrounding areas’ is wanted by Sussex Police. Alex Naylor, 37, is wanted by Sussex Police on recall to prison. Police have advised anyone that sees him to ...

A 37-year-old former finance manager has been handed a 10-year prison sentence after she was found guilty on 63 counts of fraud. Prishne Khan, who hid in a freezer to avoid being nabbed by police ...

An attempted jail break from the Makala prison, the largest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ended in the early hours of Monday morning with at least 129 inmates dead, 24 of them from ...

A former prison officer who had sex with an inmate has been filmed mocking her ankle tag. Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office in July after having sex with a ...