Prison

The Department of Justice launched civil rights investigations Thursday into prison systems in California and Maine, targeting policies that allow transgender inmates to be housed in facilities matching their gender identity rather than their biological sex.

Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has been released from prison after serving nearly one year behind bars.

Iranian authorities have extended the prison sentence of jailed human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi by an additional seven and a half years.

Ryan Routh, a man convicted of attempting to assassinate President Trump, was sentenced to life in prison.

George Zinn, the elderly man who falsely claimed he shot Charlie Kirk in the immediate aftermath of the Turning Point USA founder’s assassination.

Marshall Moreno has been released after spending more than 20 years in prison for crimes his biological daughter now says never occurred.

A Texas woman who operated a multimillion-dollar human smuggling ring during the Biden-era border crisis has been sentenced to 11 years.

A New Mexico man has been sentenced to roughly 10 months in federal prison after admitting to issuing violent threats against President Donald Trump.

At a recent Tesla shareholder meeting, CEO Elon Musk introduced a radical new idea: replace the traditional prison system with Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots that would follow and monitor former criminals.

An asylum seeker from Syria has been sentenced to three years and one month in prison after strangling and sexually assaulting a woman in Cardiff.