On The Stump Behind Bars
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Marwan Barghouti, jailed in Israel, makes a splash in the Palestinian presidential race
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A high-profile arrest may signal the start of a crackdown. But some claim the campaign is more political than legal
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The hotly contested race to fill Florida's open U.S. Senate seat has been dominated by someone who is not running, an imprisoned former professor awaiting trial on charges of raising funds for Palestinian suicide bombers.
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A convicted murderer who escaped from a Michigan psychiatric facility in 1976 was back behind bars Thursday after living most of his 30 years on the run as an otherwise law-abiding family man in Tennessee, authorities said.
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SPOKANE, Wash. - Talk about your Iron Chefs. Proving that the steel bars of the Washington State Penitentiary are no barrier to fine dining, inmates at the Walla Walla prison have just produced "The Convict Cookbook," which includes recipes that can actually be made inside a cell without a stove.
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Sen. Sam Brownback took his budding presidential campaign to prison this weekend, spent a restless night among inmates and pressed his message that faith can work even to improve the lives of hardened criminals.
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Â· More prisoners being held in police and court cellsÂ· Slopping out returns as repairs are cancelled
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- An Australian cowboy being held at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit war crimes, aiding the enemy and attempted murder.
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By Rindi White, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 9--PALMER -- South Palmer residents were ecstatic Friday when word went out that a gravel pit three miles south of the quaint farming town was no longer being considered a potential spot for the largest prison in Alaska.
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. - A pair of shackles. That's all that stood between a Potomac Highlands Regional Jail inmate and potential freedom.  Edward E.
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The grass may be greener on the inside for inmates at Japan&#39;s Abashiri Prison, where marijuana shoots have been sprouting in the exercise yard.
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By Sarah Watson, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb.
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By Tim Moran, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Feb. 1--Some inmates in the Stanislaus County Jail may taste freedom several weeks earlier as a result of a change in a work-release program.   The program, in use for 20 years, is called the sheriff's Alternative Work Program.
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ne of two inmates wanted in a daring jailbreak last month that echoed the plot of "The Shawshank Redemption" was captured in an apartment just six blocks from the jail
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CHICAGO -- Interested inmates at Newton Correctional Facility in Iowa receive teaching material that declares: "Criminal behavior is a manifestation of an alienation between the self and God. Acceptance of God and Biblical principles results in cure through the power of the Holy Spirit. Transformation happens through an instantaneous miracle; it then builds the prisoner up with familiarity of the Bible."...
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President Bush&#39;s post-convention bounce in state and national polls has left Democratic challenger John F. Kerry with a smaller battlefield upon which to contest the presidential election and a
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There are no gates or fences, and most days anyone can drive straight to the warden&#39;s home at the Federal Correctional Institute here.