These Bureau of Prisons programs teach prisoners about life, giving back and obeying the rules. Dog training programs and ...

The path he walked from panhandling in the South to being charged with killing two people along the heart of Denver’s downtown shopping district was marked by homelessness, illegal drug use, ...

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Of the 780 people ever detained at Guantánamo, 540 were released during the presidency of George W. Bush, who established the ...

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California voters rejected Proposition 6, the “End Slavery in California Act,” which would have ended forced labor in state ...

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The version of Michael Mann’s ultra-modern cybercrime thriller that made it to theaters was truncated and overtweaked (by ...

Using inmate labor to fight fires has been a practice in California since the 1940s. Where did it start and what do ...

While Bates was not prepared to take a position on that legal matter, he said it was clear that Syed, now 43, had paid his debt to society and ... him to life in prison. Attorneys for Lee ...