The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 years. The sites are being repurposed.

Throngs of people eagerly waited on Thursday for more than 100 Palestinian prisoners who were released from Israel in exchange for hostages held in Gaza.

Hamas freed three Israelis and five Thai nationals in exchange for more than 100 Palestinians. But the militant group struggled to control crowds, prompting a delay.

Dozens of people with ties to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol gathered outside the detention facility in Washington to celebrate Trump’s pardons of those convicted of crimes that day.

He issued formal pardons to more than 1,550 rioters charged with a wide range of crimes and commuted the sentences of 14 members of far-right groups.

A man convicted of murder in London was taken back into custody after a report emerged that he was anonymously making drill rap music. The victim’s family worries his music could bring him more fame.

The action, aimed at inmates who received harsher sentences based on old disparities in drug laws, will be the broadest commutation of individual sentences ever issued by a U.S. president.

Prisons across the country are struggling to find nursing home placements for sick prisoners after granting them parole. In New York, some inmates are suing for release.

The Iraqi prisoner had sued the Biden administration, saying he would be at risk for abuse at a prison in his homeland.

Just 15 men remain at the prison, down from hundreds when it opened 23 years ago. But the costly operation could go on for years.

A court filing said the prisoner was at risk for abuse and might not be able to get adequate health care if transferred.

The facility in Fulton County, Georgia, has long had problems with assaults, drugs and pests.

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York moved to try to contain the fallout from the death of Robert Brooks, in which 14 corrections workers have been implicated.

The prisoner, who was repatriated to Tunisia, was never charged. His transfer is part of a Biden administration push to further reduce the dwindling detainee population at the wartime prison.

Three of the 13 guards implicated in the savage beating of Robert Brooks had been accused in lawsuits of earlier attacks in New York prisons.

Robert Brooks died after a savage attack at a New York prison this month that was captured by several officers’ body-worn cameras.