The Supreme Court split 6-3 along party lines over its refusal to take up the issue of indigent prisoners’ filing fees.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor slammed her colleagues for declining to hear the case, writing the next such case will require prisoners to raise over $1,000 just to “knock on this court’s door.” ...

Over the objections of the court’s three Democratic appointees, the Supreme Court on Monday morning declined to hear a case ...

Venezuela has passed an amnesty law to free hundreds of political prisoners, but some rights groups and opposition members have cautiously welcomed it ...

Nearly 300 political prisoners held at El Rodeo I prison outside Caracas have launched a hunger strike in demanding their release, relatives said.

America’s Kurdish allies oversaw two dozen sites holding thousands of members of the terrorist group and their families. Their withdrawal has left the system in chaos.

The men had their death sentences commuted under the Biden administration, but say they are being punished by being transferred from a prison in Indiana to a restrictive federal prison in Colorado. By ...

By outlawing indefinite solitary confinement for death row inmates, Oklahoma joins states like Hawaii, Connecticut, and New York, which have ended this practice in recent years. Some prisoners remain ...