States pull prisoners back home
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Prison 'outsourcing' is linked to concerns about riots, recidivism, and family hardship.
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The federal Bureau of Prisons has decided to return religious materials that had been purged from prison chapel libraries.
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Three Jordanian truck drivers kidnapped in Iraq last week have been released and returned home Tuesday, a government official said.
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The last four British detainees held in  the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay were flying home Tuesday  for questioning by police, despite demands from family and  lawyers for their immediate release.
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Thirty-three detainees who had been held at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were returned to their home countries over the past week, part of a government effort to reduce the facility's population to a core group of terrorism suspects who could be held indefinitely.
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Members of a Florida Army National Guard unit from Jacksonville have begun returning home from Bosnia and Herzegovina during the past couple of days, the beginning of a withdrawal of troops from what was the ...
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The U.S. announced the transfer Tuesday of six Guantanamo Bay prisoners back to their home countries, including one who, according to his lawyers, now may face abuse in Tunisia for nonviolent political activities.
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More than 200 detainees were released Sunday from Abu Ghraib prison after a security review deemed them no longer a threat, the U.S. military said.
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The last four British detainees in the  U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay flew home Tuesday after  three years in custody and were immediately arrested by British  anti-terrorism police.
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California's top security prison  declared a state of emergency and will isolate its prisoners  for up to six weeks after discovering an inmate plot to murder  three guards, officials said on Friday.
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The last Britons held at the US jail for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay are expected to return home within hours, finally bringing to an end a saga that has badly strained usually close Anglo-US relations.
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Six detainees were transferred this week out of the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including one detainee who was returned to Tunisian authorities over the objections of his attorneys amid fears that he will be tortured by a government known for human rights violations.
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Detainees who've been released, only to join up again with anti-U.S. forces
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BEITUNIA CHECKPOINT, WEST BANK - Family members were reunited Monday with 159 Palestinians released from Israeli detention. Israel said it freed them as part of a prisoner swap with Egypt and as a goodwill gesture to the new Palestinian leadership.
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U.S. forces in Afghanistan freed 81  suspected Taliban fighters from military jails across the  country Sunday and some of the released men said they had been  mistreated and tortured in custody.
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The state prison system is ending its policy permitting pat-down searches of female inmates by male guards, officials said Monday.
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Religious materials are being returned to prison chapel libraries, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said Thursday, confirming plans to modify a program designed to remove religious books and videos that could incite violence.