The prisons’ inspector has said that overcrowding is “blighting the daily lives” of people working and incarcerated in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada is set to plead guilty next week in a drug trafficking ...

At 14, he was lured to the home of a man who became a prolific serial killer. He didn't know it yet, but the man tortured and ...

Nodin Chervenka will spend over a decade in jail for threatening police officers with a box cutter and torturing a disabled ...

After Ian McKellan teased that Elijah Wood's beloved halfling could return for the new 'Lord of the Rings' movie, there's ...

A man with a history of mental illness and substance abuse was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison after two violent ...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has released a report examining the decline in religious ...

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is accused of ordering torture, plotting murders and flooding the U.S. with cocaine, heroin and ...

This year’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are a creditable effort, but Trump administration uninterest in human rights policy (and in the reports) is undermining the cause of human rights.

At the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) addressed the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons ...