The role of Black prisoners helped lead to the practice of using genetic testing to understand how patients will react to medications, according to the paper.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, imprisoned in Texas after felony fraud convictions, this week asked the federal court in San Jose to slash more than two years off her sentence, arguing that her work to help fellow prisoners and herself qualifies her for the reduction.

Peru is weighing sending what it considers highly dangerous foreign inmates to prisons in El Salvador, the prime minister said on Thursday, potentially following in the footsteps of US deportations of migrants to the Central American nation.

Suffolk County’s jails are being forced to hold onto 125 felons who were supposed to be transferred upstate — with officials blaming state government chaos for the delay, The Post has

NBC News' Richard Engel reports from outside a hospital in Ukraine where families wait to see if their missing loved ones are among prisoners of war released by Russia.

Much attention has been paid to malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary and the fraught ethical issues that the carceral studies raised. Stateville inmates were infected with the potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease from 1945 to 1974 to test the efficacy of various antimalarial treatments—part of an effort to protect American troops serving overseas.

Syrian authorities and a Kurdish-led force have exchanged more than 400 prisoners part of a deal reached earlier this year between the two sides.

The families of Ukrainian detainees have had to rely on such hearsay about their loved ones. In November 2022, the early months of the war, United Nations investigators said Ukraine granted its teams access to the prisoners it had detained, whereas Russia refused.

Peru is weighing sending what it considers highly dangerous foreign inmates to prisons in El Salvador, the prime minister said on Thursday, potentially following in the footsteps of the U.S.' deportations of migrants to the Central American nation.

Members of the eilite Massada Unit raided the cells of Arab prisoners who celebrated as Iranian missiles rained down on Israel.