prisoners

Belarus has released 3 from prison, including an American and a journalist

3:16pm February 12, 2025

Andrey Kuznechyk, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was one of those released from a Belarusian prison after more than three years. The released American has not been named publicly.

Trump meets with American teacher Marc Fogel after he was freed from a Russian prison

3:03pm February 11, 2025

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz said Fogel was released in what he called "an exchange" with Russia and was on his way back to the United States. Terms of the exchange were unclear.

Israeli army releases some Palestinians detained in Gaza

World News

Palestinian detainees from Gaza say they are facing abuse in Israeli prisons

10:47am July 23, 2024

Most Palestinians who've been rounded up since Oct. 7 are incarcerated without due process or contact with the outside world, Israeli human rights organizations say. Israel denies abusing detainees.

Queue Listen Now

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, seated, shows an executive order

Politics & Government

North Carolina joins an effort to improve outcomes for freed prisoners

1:56pm January 30, 2024

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

North Carolina has joined a nascent nationwide effort to improve outcomes for more prisoners who return to society through an approach focused on education, health care and housing.

Prisoners pass through a courtyard at Waupun Correctional Institution. Officials in some prison towns have come up with creative ways to avoid forming voting districts made up primarily of prisoners. But in many others, political lines are drawn around pr

'Your Body Being Used': Where Prisoners Who Can't Vote Fill Voting Districts

1:28pm December 31, 2019

The U.S. census counts incarcerated people as residents of where they are imprisoned. In many prison towns, that has led to voting districts made up primarily of prisoners who can't vote.

The planned demonstrations are in response to a riot that resulted in seven deaths in April at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina.

National

Inmates Plan To Hold Weeks-Long Strike At Prisons Across U.S.

3:42pm August 21, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

Organizers say the demonstrations, which are expected to include hunger strikes and a refusal to work, are in response to a riot at a South Carolina prison in which seven inmates died.

Nearly 90 former inmates are buried here on the grounds of the North Central Correctional Institution at Gardner. Before inmates, the state buried patients housed at what once was the Gardner State Colony for the "mentally disturbed."

National

Tempering The Cost Of Aging, Dying In Prison With The Demands Of Justice

5:00am August 01, 2018

Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of aging prisoners in the nation. A new law would allow parole for prisoners who can prove they are physically or cognitively incapacitated.

Hua Qu, the wife of Chinese-American Xiyue Wang, poses with a portrait of her family in Princeton, N.J., on May 9. Families of Americans detained in Iran are hoping President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal will not make it harder

For Relatives Of U.S. Prisoners In Iran, Uncertainty Grows After Iran Deal Pullout

3:13pm May 16, 2018

by Arezou Rezvani

The Trump administration's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal may complicate efforts to free American citizens detained in Iran, former U.S. diplomats warn.

Members of the Pathfinders 5th Battalion, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, go for a run at Fort Campbell, Ky., in 2013. The Census Bureau says it will count deployed service members as residents of their home bases or ports fo

National

2020 Census To Count Deployed Troops At Home Bases, Prisoners At Facilities

8:46am February 08, 2018

by Hansi Lo Wang

The Census Bureau says it will change how it counts service members deployed overseas and continue counting prisoners as residents of their correctional facilities for the upcoming national headcount.

Queue Listen Now

Artist and flipbooked.com founder Liza Tudor thumbs through "1st Steps," a flipbook of Nicole Garrens' son Zander's first steps. Tudor sent the flipbook to Garrens' husband, Roy, who's currently incarcerated in Texas.

Flipbooks Help Prisoners Stay Connected To Their Loved Ones

5:07pm May 29, 2017

by Noel Black

For people in prison, rules limiting access to technology make seeing video of their kids' first steps difficult. But a Colorado woman is using a 19th century solution for this 21st century problem.

Queue Listen Now