Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2006, US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, June 27, 2007 . Read the...

The Louisiana State Legislature Tuesday approved a ban on dilation and extraction (D&X) abortions , establishing fines between $10,000 and $100,000 and a jail term from one to ten years for any physician who performs...

The Council of Europe (COE) Wednesday called on member states to act with greater transparency and exercise greater oversight of military and foreign intelligence services, giving support to a...

The US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics announced Wednesday that the US prison and jail population, already the largest in the world, increased by 2.8 percent to reach over 2.2 million prisoners in 2006 [press...

Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas and his son Timothy were ordered Wednesday to begin serving their prison sentences on August 13th; the two men have been free on bail since their 2004 convictions as they appealed their...

Pakistani government lawyer Malik Muhammad Qayyum told reporters Tuesday that he supports giving suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry a public trial, saying that the government should respect Chaudhry's desire that the proceedings be...

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Christopher Cox defended the SEC's record from Democratic and Republican criticism before the US House Financial Services Committee Tuesday, testifying that the...

The European Commission (EC) reported Wednesday that new EU members Bulgaria and Romania need to do more to achieve judicial reform, fight corruption and organized crime . A report on Bulgaria's progress in...

The Seoul Administrative Court granted asylum Tuesday to a Chinese dissident who exposed allegations of human organ trading, overturning a ruling by the Ministry of Justice that denied asylum to the dissident and his family. The dissident, who is...

US Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Tuesday urged federal appellate court Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to recuse himself in "all pending and subsequent cases involving detainees and enemy combatants," after the Washington...