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Cuba to Free 51 Prisoners in Vatican-Linked Move

Officials attribute the decision to goodwill stemming from relations with the Holy See.

Federal Judge Orders Receivership of Health Care in Arizona State Prisons

Bolsonaro Defense Cites Health Decline, Presses for PF Medical Report to Unlock House-Arrest Review

New Hampshire House Approves Hard-Labor Sentences for Capital Murder and Child Sex Assault

Bukele Offers to Transfer All Salvadoran Inmates After Clinton Criticizes CECOT

Two Palestine Action Hunger Strikers Hospitalized as 50-Day Protest Reaches Crisis Point

Bavaria to Require Judge Review of Secure-Cell Stays Over 72 Hours After Gablingen Report

Indonesia Hands Over Two Dutch Drug Convicts for Repatriation to the Netherlands

San Francisco Jail Strip-Search Claim Triggers Review as Sheriff Disputes ‘Mass’ Search

Alabama Executes Anthony Boyd With Nitrogen Gas as Witnesses Report Prolonged Death

Rigoberta Menchú Speaks to 200 Inmates at Mexico’s Federal Women’s Prison in Morelos

Greene Says Santos Has Spent Nearly 30 Days in Solitary, Renews Clemency Push

DOCCS-Led Panel Seeks Changes to New York's HALT Solitary Confinement Law

Lille Judges Hear First Challenges to France's New Ultra‑Secure Prison Wing

Trump Administration to House Migrants in Notorious Angola Prison

Combs’s Bail Bid Cites ‘Inhumane’ Jail Conditions as President Trump Pardon Rumors Swirl

Tennessee Supreme Court Clears Way for Byron Black’s Execution Without Defibrillator Deactivation

Paris Prosecutor Appeals Abdallah’s Release Without Blocking 25 July Expulsion

Douai Court Orders Reforms to Redoine Faïd’s Solitary Confinement

B.C. Proposes $60 Million Settlement in Solitary Confinement Class Action