"You don't expect them to be used in countries that have reasonable rule of law standards," said Juan E. Méndez, a former ...

Baker Correctional Institution is inundated with complaints of medical neglect, insufficient food and water, and abuse, the ...

Julia Cardy will spend two weeks walking across Prince Edward Island with a flag her friend April Huggett carried for 700 ...

Tourists near Alcatraz were stunned when a great white suddenly breached beside the island and attacked a harbor seal near ...

Since the end, on July 27, of a protective status that had allowed Haitians to reside in the United States, 350,000 of them ...

Florida was promised more than $600 million to help pay for Alligator Alcatraz, but new federal reports questioning conditions and costs could leave state taxpayers holding the bill.

Here are nine events around the Bay Area celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day coming up on Oct. 12, plus some events before and ...

The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels are ready to put on a show for Fleet Week in the Bay Area. Along with the excitement and ...

A class action lawsuit filed Oct. 2 alleges unsanitary, "unconstitutional" conditions at an ICE Miramar office.

As thousands of people prepare to head to San Francisco's waterfront and onto the Bay for Fleet Week​, the U.S. Coast Guard ...

In the history of rock, there are several moments when the sonic landscape was completely transformed by the emergence of a specific guitarist. Released in 1983, Alcatrazz's debut album 'No Parole fro ...

A recent announcement has confirmed that an underrated Denzel Washington movie will be getting its television adaptation soon. This news comes after fans pleaded for a sequel to The Book of Eli. As ...