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The military, which in 2021 disclosed its last major internal relocation of Guantánamo prisoners, declined to discuss this week's security operation. Undisclosed infrastructure problems forced the military to evacuate the [...]

Byline: Ramzi Kassem Twenty years ago this month, the first plane full of prisoners touched down at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. A widely circulated image showed [...]

Byline: Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are discussing a plan to phase out family detention at the Karnes County Residential Center in Texas, according [...]

CANADATrudeau adviser quits, denies wrongdoingPrime Minister Justin Trudeau's top adviser has resigned while denying allegations he pressured Canada's former attorney general to avoid prosecuting a major Canadian engineering firm.Principal Secretary [...]

Byline: Tom Jackman The American criminal justice system's gradual realization that too many people are in jail needlessly just got a large, visible boost from the city of Philadelphia. The [...]

Hoping to accelerate the closing of the Rikers Island jail complex, city officials on Wednesday announced that they have now chosen sites for four new jails, one in each borough [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The prime minister of Ethiopia on Wednesday announced that the government would close a notorious detention center and release some prisoners across the country, including some members [...]

Closing New York City's troubled jail complex on Rikers Island will take at least a decade and will require a big decline in the inmate population, a continued drop in [...]

For months, protesters hounded Mayor Bill de Blasio at town hall-style meetings and fund-raisers from Manhattan to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., demanding that he shut down New York City's main jail [...]

Rikers Island could become a key cog for New York's LaGuardia Airport. At least that's one vision for the island that's included in a city-sponsored proposal on what to do [...]

PHOENIX -- Tent City, the outdoor jail that stood as the last remaining symbol of Joe Arpaio's long, turbulent tenure as sheriff of Maricopa County, will close in the coming [...]

The independent commission studying Rikers Island officially released its recommendations for closing the troubled jail complex on Sunday, more than a year after the panel was convened and two days [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio is suddenly on the side of closing Rikers Island, the New York City jail complex synonymous with brutality, incompetence, corruption and neglect. If there is one [...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed on Friday to close the troubled jail complex on Rikers Island, which has spawned federal investigations, brought waves of protests and became a byword for [...]

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Thursday that he would advise President Trump to send newly captured terrorism suspects to the wartime prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which [...]

Byline: Gretel Kauffman After years of controversy and claims of human rights violations, Australia is closing its refugee detention center on Manus Island. In an announcement made Wednesday, Papua New [...]

Byline: Patrick Martin Why was the prison at Guantanamo created? It was set up to hold suspects in the 'war on terror' declared by thenU.S. president George W. Bush in [...]

Byline: Lucy Schouten The Pentagon announced Tuesday that 15 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay have been released into custody of the United Arab Emirates, the largest transfer during President Obama's administration [...]

A decade ago, Martin F. Horn, then the commissioner of the New York City Correction Department, came up with a novel plan to close the worst of the jails on [...]

Any serious effort to repair criminal justice in New York City must do something about Rikers Island, the jail complex in the East River where justice goes to die, or [...]

The full text of President Barack Obama's Feb. 23, 2016 remarks on plans to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, as provided by the White House: THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, [...]

It began as a ''dream'' on Thursday, in a speech by the New York City Council speaker: closing the Rikers Island jail complex. Over the weekend, the idea gathered steam; [...]

Byline: Corey Dickstein WASHINGTON - A pair of suspected Al-Qaida bomb-makers who'd previously been cleared for transfer from Guantanamo Bay were sent to eastern Europe on Thursday, leaving 91 detainees [...]

Byline: Henry Gass This fall, a sports village called The Yard opened on 36 acres in this rural community a few hours north of New York City. Athletes of all [...]

Byline: Denise Hassanzade Ajiri Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) announced Thursday plans for the 'immediate' closure of the 'deplorable' Baltimore City Detention Center, the only local jail in the nation [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan The Pentagon has transferred two Libyan detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Senegal, Defense Department officials said Monday, the latest step in President Obama's accelerating effort [...]

Byline: Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday that for the first time since 1980, the federal inmate population has fallen, rather than risen. At the end [...]

As President Obama gears up for a new push to close Guantanamo Bay, lawmakers from both parties are skeptical the president will be successful in persuading Congress to shutter the [...]

Speaking recently, President Obama reaffirmed his intent to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I served as White House counsel during the initial recommendation to former President [...]