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President Obama has granted more commuted sentences for federal prisoners than the last 12 presidents combined. It seems everyone is talking this week about WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year prison sentence was commuted on January 17 by President Obama....

Photo By Getty Images By Dominic Patten, Deadline January 18, 2017 Just two days before the first part of Abby Lee Miller’s sentencing in her multi-million dollar fraud and illegal currency import cases, the “Dance Moms” host is insisting that the hidi...

January 17, 2017 President Obama has commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, paving the way for the army intelligence analyst turned high-profile leaker to be freed on May 17, the White House announced Tuesday. Manning was on a list of 209 commut...

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSJAN. 17, 2017 RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian authorities are scrambling to stop a wave of prison violence that has killed at least 125 inmates in two weeks, many with their heads cut off or their hearts and intestines ripped out. Three massacre...

Returning Guatemalan immigrants fly on a deportation flight from Mesa, Arizona on June 24, 2011 in flight to Guatemala City, Guatemala. Immigration detainees formerly held in Utah have been transferred to detention facilities as far away as Alabama after the Utah County Jail terminate...

December 1, 2016 WASHINGTON—Attorney General Loretta Lynchsaid Wednesday that a school system would be formed within the vast federal prison network as part of a series of efforts to drive down recidivism and create a clearer path for thousands of inmates to re-enter their home communi...

  Khaldoun Barghouti (left) and Abdul Rahman Rahim al-Bibi (right), behind the counter at their food truck. The two men say they met behind bars in an Israeli prison, where they worked in the canteen. Lauren Frayer/NPR - November 2, 2016 Huddled over a hot griddle...

  Juan Echevarria, a former inmate who is pursuing a college degree, on his mother’s couch, where he sometimes has to sleep. Katie Orlinsky (nytimes.com) By Kyle Spencer - NY Times - November 1, 2016 Around midnight on June 30, 1998, Juan Echevarria, a 23-year-old...

By: Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times October 28, 2016  In his 29 years in prison, David Bonner has mopped floors, cooked hot dogs in the cafeteria and, most recently, cut sheets of aluminum into Alabama license plates. The last job paid $2 a day — enough to buy a ...