The US prison and jail population added prisoners from mid-2004 to mid-2005 at a rate of 2.6 percent and more than 1,000 new inmates a week, reaching a total of 2,186,230 inmates behind bars according to a...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that the government has authority to prosecute journalists for publishing classified material under several "statutes on the book which, if you read the language carefully, would seem to...

FBI agents videotaped US Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) last August accepting $100,000 in cash as a bribe from wealthy businesswoman Lori Mody for a Nigerian official, according to an FBI affidavit made public Sunday. Mody was...

Raouf Abdel-Rahman , the judge presiding over the Saddam Hussein trial , on Monday threw defense lawyer Bushra Khalil out of the courtroom for apparently arguing with the chief judge. Khalil, the only female...

A group of former Guantanamo Bay detainees were found not guilty by a Kuwaiti court Sunday of belonging to al Qaeda and fighting a friendly state. The five detainees, arrested in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, were...

The number of women incarcerated in the United States for periods longer than a year grew 757 percent between 1977 and 2004, with Oklahoma and Mississippi showing the greatest increases, according to a report released Sunday from the Women's...

Over 50 percent of eligible voters in Montenegro have already cast their ballots in Sunday's referendum on independence from Serbia, according to ballot observers from the Center for Democratic Transition (CDT) , meeting...

Government officials in Iran are working on a draft bill , that would encourage a return to traditional Islamic religious dress in the workplace and in public. According to the Islamic Republic News...

Travis County Prosecutor Ronnie Earle has filed an appeal in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals , the highest criminal court in the state, requesting that conspiracy charges against US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX)...

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner has said that an estimated 35,000 detention beds are required to turn the Department's maligned "catch and release" program for dangerous illegal immigrants into a "catch and...