US President Donald Trump orders federal takeover of DC police, deploys National Guard politics.usa Article 51 votes
Denmark votes for defence bill giving US access to airbases – new agreement places bases in cities such as Karup and Skrydstrup under US jurisdiction politics.usa Article 485 words 7 votes
Estonia will lease space at Tartu Prison to Sweden and accept up to 600 inmates under a new agreement – sparks fears of imported organised crime politics Article 434 words 9 votes
The hidden provision in the US House of Representatives Budget Bill that neuters the courts and potentially makes Donald Trump king politics.usa Article 777 words 43 votes
US judges ruling against Donald Trump barraged with abuse and threats. Experts call it a dangerous situation. politics.usa Article 1775 words 36 votes
Iran ex-detainees press Sweden over death row academic – Swedish-Iranian citizen Ahmadreza Djalali suffered a heart attack in Tehran's Evin prison, his wife said Friday politics Article 417 words 5 votes
US President Donald Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison politics.usa Article 920 words 22 votes
El Salvador won’t return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported Maryland resident; Department of Justice will leave it up to El Salvador politics.usa Article 45 votes
An algorithm deemed this nearly blind 70-year-old prisoner a “moderate risk.” Now he’s no longer eligible for parole. politics.usa Article 2680 words 28 votes
Donald Trump administration must ‘facilitate’ return to US of man erroneously deported to El Salvador, Supreme Court says politics.usa Article 35 votes
Hungary withdraws from International Criminal Court during Benjamin Netanyahu visit politics Article 43 words 14 votes
US Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing Article 415 words 55 votes
Peru declares state of emergency as violent crimewave engulfs Lima politics Article 345 words 13 votes
US President Donald Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act for the first time against Venezuelan criminal organization politics.usa Article 944 words 43 votes
US Department of Homeland Security quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity politics.usa Article 400 words 41 votes
US President Donald Trump announces Dan Bongino, a right-wing commentator, as FBI deputy director politics.usa Article 895 words 20 votes
Eastern Kentucky activists bought land where feds wanted to build a prison politics.usa Article 698 words, published Jan 22 2025 10 votes
US President Donald Trump appointed prosecutor Ed Martin withdrew Jan. 6 case against his own client politics.usa Article 453 words 13 votes
Sweden's political parties have agreed that dual citizens who commit crimes that threaten national security should lose their citizenship politics Article 469 words 11 votes
US President Joe Biden gives life in prison to thirty-seven of forty federal death row inmates so Donald Trump can't have them executed politics.usa Article 917 words 30 votes
US President Joe Biden commutes sentences for 1,500 people, the largest act of clemency in a day politics.usa Article 331 words 32 votes
Tears of joy and sadness as ‘disappeared’ Syrians emerge from Bashar al-Assad’s prisons politics Article 548 words 24 votes
California governor Gavin Newsom pardons former San Quentin prison inmate who became Pulitzer Prize finalist for his podcast politics.usa Article 328 words 7 votes
Beautification project in California prison inspired by Norwegian approach to incarceration – rehabilitation in humane prisons surrounded by nature leads to successful reintegration into society Article 1000 words 30 votes
US and British citizens among thirty-seven sentenced to death in DR Congo coup trial politics.usa Article 123 words 23 votes
First guilty plea in Arizona fake elector case comes from Republican activist Lorraine Pellegrino politics.usa Article 358 words, published Aug 7 2024 22 votes
Police in Denmark to implement facial recognition technology to combat violent crimes – recent increases in crime in Copenhagen involving gangs from neighbouring Sweden politics Article 489 words 9 votes
Mayor of Oslo warns that drug smugglers are increasingly targeting the Norwegian capital as a gateway to Europe as authorities tighten controls on major ports such as Antwerp politics Article 475 words 7 votes
United Kingdom's new Prisons Minister, James Timpson, thinks 'two thirds of inmates shouldn't be there' politics Article 513 words 44 votes
Swedish human rights activist Anna Ardin accused Julian Assange of sexual assault, but is glad he's now free politics Article 1566 words 18 votes
US Supreme Court makes it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, charge Donald Trump faces politics.usa Article 578 words 24 votes
Maryland governor to pardon 175,000 marijuana convictions in sweeping order politics.usa Article 1797 words 52 votes
America’s prison system is turning into a de facto nursing home Article 2349 words, published Apr 8 2024 20 votes
Analysis: Donald Trump faces multiple US trials. Here’s why scheduling many for one defendant is complicated. politics.usa Article 871 words, published Aug 17 2023 5 votes
Family of Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus, imprisoned in Iran for more than 663 days, fear death penalty verdict is imminent politics Article 902 words 17 votes
How Iceland takes better care of its foreign criminal offenders than the rest of Europe Article 1004 words 9 votes
What happened at the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account politics.usa Article 632 words 33 votes
US Ninth Circuit Court panel unanimously orders FBI to destroy records it created during searches of US Private Vaults boxes Link 23 votes
Alexei Navalny disappears for three weeks; reappears at isolated Arctic penal colony politics Article 29 votes
Polish political tensions ramp up as PiS politicians arrested at Presidential Palace politics Article 233 words 16 votes
US President Joe Biden pardons thousands on federal marijuana charges, commutes others politics.usa Article 77 words 79 votes