ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Jail and Prison Oversight Omnibus Bill Friday, which seeks to reform prisons across the state. The reforms in the bill include more cameras in prisons, ...

Sean "Diddy" Combs is not giving up on his fight for freedom. Lawyers for the convicted hip hop mogul asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday for his immediate release. They also asked the court to ...

Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates? By Jan Ransom Jan Ransom has been covering the ...

Prison has rules, and not all crimes are treated equally. At the very bottom of the inmate hierarchy are those convicted of abusing children or the vulnerable. Once their paperwork is checked, their ...

A group of Venezuelans who were sent to a maximum-security El Salvador prison from the US and then returned to Venezuela called on Friday for the United States to comply with a ruling that would allow ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Venezuela has begun releasing political prisoners, a move that could be the first sign the new government is bending to pressure from the United States on the issue. The head of ...

Dec 26 (Reuters) - Venezuela freed 99 people jailed after last year’s election protests, the prisons authority said on Thursday, but rights groups said they believed the figure was lower despite ...

Jan 1 (Reuters) - Venezuela's government has freed 88 more people detained after protests that followed the South American nation's July 2024 election, marking the second mass release in as many weeks ...

Dec. 26 (UPI) --Venezuela's government announced the release of 99 people detained after the country's 2024 presidential election amid a prolonged political crisis fueled by allegations of fraud that ...

At least five Americans, including a New Yorker, are being detained in Venezuela following the Trump administration’s latest military and economic pressure campaign against Caracas, according to a new ...

The number of American citizens held in Venezuela has grown since the start of the U.S. military and economic campaign against President Nicolás Maduro. By Anatoly Kurmanaev Annie Correal and Edward ...

Venezuelan security forces have detained at least five Americans in recent months as the US has built a pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a US official familiar with the ...