ALYSSA ROHRICHT   On Monday, the Associated Press revealed that the Department of Justice used subpoenas to obtain phone records of its editors and reporters from April and May 2012. The records were obtained due to the investigation and supposed leak to the AP last year that the CIA ...

STRASBOURG, France :-Prisons are overcrowded in nearly half of the countries across western and eastern Europe, where there are in some cases 150 prisoners for 100 places, a report published Friday showed.   Twenty of the 47 countries in the Council of Europe have more prisoners than ...

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's Ministry of Justice suspended a supplier of halal meat to prisons on Friday after traces of pork were found inside meat pies and pasties.All prisons have been informed and the halal-labelled products were withdrawn immediately, an MoJ spokesman said."This is an absolutely ...

President Barack Obama Thursday ordered the closure of all CIA detention centers set up abroad to hold terror suspects, a senior administration official said. One the executive orders signed "states that the CIA shall close as expeditiously as possible any detention facility that it currently ...