Freed After 44 Years, a Prison Journalist Looks Back and Ahead
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In his fourth trial for a 1961 murder, Wilbert Rideau was convicted of manslaughter, allowing him to be released for time served.
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Mirza Tahir Hussain, the British man released from a Pakistani jail after spending 18 years on death row, spoke of the beatings and intimidation he experienced while in prison, in an interview published in The ...Comment
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BERLIN -- A court paroled a one time leader of Germany's notorious Red Army Faction yesterday after 24 years in prison, amid bitter memories of the left-wing terrorist group's attacks on law enforcement and business leaders, which plunged the country into fear three decades ago.
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Marwan Barghouti, the 45-year-old Palestinian politician and presidential candidate who sits in an Israeli jail, is widely considered to be among the best of his generation
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With no apologies and asking for privacy, David Matthew Hicks, who was convicted of terrorist activities in March, was freed from prison
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A dissident who led the 1988 student protests in Burma is freed, as part of a release of 4,000 prisoners.
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Afghan authorities have released from jail an American imprisoned in 2004 for running a private jail and illegally detaining and torturing people in a freelance war on terror.
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Nick Thorpe has been travelling through Bosnia meeting concentration camp guards who have served their sentences and are now free.
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The long, strange journey of Charles Robert Jenkins reached a tearful climax with a 30-day sentence in a military prison and a dishonourable discharge from the United States Army he deserted for North Korea almost 40 years ago.
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It&#39;s been a traumatic year and a half for Terry Kennedy and his fiancÃ©e, Dawn Marie Wilson, who was recently released from a Mexican prison.
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the time she had to report to the country&#39;s oldest federal prison for women. service of her sentence,&quot; a Federal Bureau of Prisons statement said.
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Zhao Yan, a Chinese research assistant for The New York Times, was released from a Beijing prison.
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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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Iraqi author Haifa Zangana fled her country three decades ago after being tortured as a political prisoner during Saddam Hussein's rule.
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A Chinese journalist for the New York Times is freed after spending almost three years in jail in China.
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For the last month and a half, Byron Halsey has been trying to piece his life back together after serving the last two decades in prison for the rape and murder of two children.
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A Chinese journalist jailed while working for the New York Times was released on Saturday, ending a controversial prison term that highlighted the country's tough media controls.