How can we forgive the Iranian government when it continues to imprison so many other innocent people and prisoners of conscience? It is the Iranian people who bear the brunt of this government’s cruelty and disregard for human rights.

It's time to end this silly farce of Labor Day. No one celebrates labor. I mean no one. A few months back I suggested to Arianna Huffington that Huffington Post have a Labor section.

Police said the incident started when Brown got angry after seeing Polis enter the woman’s bathroom at the restaurant and began shouting derogatory remarks about Polis’ gender identity. Police and witnesses said Brown and the juvenile then started the assault.

A new device to be used as a weapon in prisons has caused a lot of controversy. Read the article and judge for yourself.

David Cameron used a visit to Turkey to make his strongest intervention yet in the intractable Middle East conflict today when he likened the experience of Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza strip to that of a "prison camp".

excerpt: ''Over the phone, Krystal has a calm and lilting Southern accent. She identifies as a woman now, but when she entered Louisiana's juvenile justice system at 12 years of age, she presented herself as a boy and used male pronouns.

Treatment-v- Incarceration

Why is the Criminal Justice agents and the Courts incarcerating the poor, disabled, and the middle class for breaking the laws against harming themselves and for not knowingly breaking the laws; but when it comes to Law Enforcement agents who use their badge to murder seven year …

This man helped steal millions, but then helped the government recover millions, so should he go to jail?

John Allen Muhammad, the "Beltway sniper" who went on a two-week shooting spree in the Washington, D.C., area in 2003, is scheduled for execution in Greensville, Va., Tuesday night.

A federal appeals court has ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be sued by people who claim they were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after 9/11, calling the practice a "repugnant to the Constitution."

Asked what programs they would cut to solve the state's budget deficit, Californians said in the latest Field Poll that prison spending tops the list.

published 4 minutes ago... The Pentagon is about to release "hundreds" of photographs showing the alleged abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, US officials say.

Four months have passed since the European court of human rights landed a unanimous and unusually pointed judgment damning the "blanket and indiscriminate" DNA database in England and Wales, which keeps genetic tabs not just on criminals but on anyone falling under police suspici …

Earlier today on CNBC, host Larry Kudlow introduced a segment on the government's new Term Asset-Backed Loan Facility by lighting a dollar bill on fire.

Cynthia McKinney says 5000 executed Katrina used as cover.

Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney announced for the first time on Sunday that she has received information that some 5000, mostly male, possibly prisoners were killed execution style, by single gunshot to the head, using the tragic events of hurricane Katrina as a cover.

Like the largesse he spread so bountifully to members of Congress and the White House staff -- countless fancy meals, skybox tickets to basketball games and U2 concerts, golfing sprees in Scotland -- Jack Abramoff is the gift that keeps on giving.

'Rioting at a federal prison in Agassiz, B.C., on Saturday night has left one inmate dead, another in hospital, and the medium-security facility in lockdown. No staff members were injured.

For the first time in the nation's history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report. Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6 million. Another 723,000 people are in local jails.

Can you be Pro-Life and still support the Death Penalty?

Sunday, December 23, 2007 Can you be Pro-Life and still support the Death Penalty? I was visiting some family and friends this weekend. My daughter drove us down…..she has her permit and was wanting to get some practice in……but that is another story for another time.

The number of people in U.S prisons has risen eight-fold since 1970, with little impact on crime but at great cost to taxpayers and society, researchers said in a report calling for a major justice-system overhaul.

Spratt, a convicted killer with a life sentence and a professed calling from God, prays inside this sanctuary every Friday evening. He preaches here, too, lecturing on sin and salvation and reciting favorite Bible passages.

Just yesterday, October the 11th; Mychael Bell was sentenced to 18 months by the same Judge who was overruled in claiming that he had adult jurisdiction on some of the charges in the school beating, and who tried to keep Bell locked up without bail even after all his convictions  …

By MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer Fri Jan 12, 4:48 AM ET

Teen Sues Over Sex Offender Boss A Central Florida teen has accused her former employer of negligent hiring after she was allegedly touched inappropriately by a manager who she later found out was a convicted sex offender.

The al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui will likely serve his prison sentence in Florence, Colo., but for reasons of security the Bureau of Prisons tells CBS4 that their officials will not confirm it until after he arrives.