A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the last two of six White ex-law enforcement officers in Mississippi to lengthy prison terms ... called themselves the “Goon Squad,” to terms ranging ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

Guards are using prison work assignments at correctional facilities across the United States to lure and rape female inmates, a shocking investigation by the Associated Press has found.

The six former law enforcement officers were convicted for their crimes, and received prison sentences ranging from 10 to 45 years. “Since the Goon Squad’s sickening acts came to light ...

Though they now represent only about 10 percent of the nation’s overall prison population, female incarceration rates have jumped from about 26,000 in 1980 to nearly 200,000 today. Some guards ...

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — Three guards at Riverbend Correctional Facility in Milledgeville were convicted last Wednesday for smuggling contraband into the prison, Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit Assistant ...

The Asahi Shimbun received a brown paper envelope in October from a man who said he was an 89-year-old former prison guard living in the Kanto region. He said he had read an Asahi article (https ...

First aid training for prison guards has been cut back in the last six months, a coroner has said, in a warning that the lives of inmates are being put at risk. Coroner Ivan Cartwright raised the ...

Luis Esquivel, warden of Paraguay's Tacumbú Prison, spoke early Wednesday from inside the penitentiary where inmates are holding him hostage together with 22 guards and said an answer from the ...