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Congo's minister of justice says nearly 1,700 ill inmates have been released from the country's largest prison as part of an effort to thin out Congo's overcrowded prisons

After an intense weekend, in which the Menendez brothers blasted Ryan Murphy for his version of their story on Netflix, things started to look up. Kim Kardashian and her family visited them, and they will have a documentary of their own.

The reality star was reportedly joined by actor Cooper Koch, who plays Erik Menendez in the Netflix series.

Kardashian stopped by San Diego's Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility to discuss prison reform

For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters arguably constitute fundamental lenses through…

Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay.

It suffered at the box office and failed to win any Oscars, but the 1994 prison drama is still seen by many as greater than The Godfather

The producers wanted Tom Cruise. The creek in its most famous scene was toxic. And barely anyone saw it upon release. So why, Tom Fordy asks, did Frank Darabont’s seemingly doomed Stephen King adaptation grow into one of the most celebrated films of all time?

The Luxon government surely has little sense of irony.