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Argentina Asks Inter-American Court to End Milagro Sala’s House Arrest

The Justice Ministry says she violated monitoring rules and argues the 2017 measure has become an unjust privilege.

Moraes Allows Limited Domestic Help for Augusto Heleno as Ethics Panel Moves to Notify Him

Paris Appeals Court Frees Nicolas Sarkozy Under Judicial Supervision

Brazilian Woman Detained in Cambodia Faces Trial This Week After Family Alleges Trafficking

Peru Moves Ex-President Martín Vizcarra From Presidential Jail to Common High-Security Prison

Trump Administration to House Migrants in Notorious Angola Prison

Bavaria Reassigns Corrections Chief as JVA Augsburg-Gablingen Probe Continues

British Mother Faces Year-Long Remand in Notorious Mauritian Prison

Douai Court Orders Reforms to Redoine Faïd’s Solitary Confinement

Ana Julia Quezada Accused of Using Prison Corruption to Plan True-Crime Documentary

Bureau of Prisons to Implement Federal Oversight Following Widespread Sexual Abuse at Women’s Prison

French Judge Orders End to Solitary Confinement for Notorious Criminal Rédoine Faïd

Scandal at JVA Gablingen: Allegations of Inmate Mistreatment Stir Controversy

Wisconsin Prison Warden and Staff Charged After Inmate Deaths