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FILE - California Gold Marketing Group's Dwight Manley examines a gold coin, recovered from the S.S. Central America steamship that went down in a hurricane in 1857, in a laboratory, Jan. 23, 2018, in Santa Ana, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Prisons

‘Ship of Gold’ treasure hunter released from prison, but 500 gold coins remain unaccounted for

MARCH 10, 2026

Ukrainian POWs Dying in Prison
A portrait of Serhii Hryhoriev, a Ukrainian prisoner of war who died in Russia, is seen next to his grave in Pyriatyn, Ukraine, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Prisons

As Ukrainian POWs die in Russian prisons, autopsies point to a system of brutality

MAY 27, 2025

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Prisons

Saudi Arabia presses Florida man to give up US citizenship over critical tweets, family says

JAN. 7, 2025

Syria
In this photo provided by the Syrian Emergency Task Force, American Travis Timmerman, right, sits with Mosaed al-Rifai, center, who found him in the Syrian desert, and the owner of the house where he took refuge, left, name not available, in Damascus, Syria on Thursday Dec. 12, 2024. (Syrian Emergency Task Force via AP)

Americans

American found after Syrian imprisonment 

DEC. 20, 2024

Private Prisons Settlements
Trousdale Turner Correctional Center operated by CoreCivic is seen Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in Hartsville, Tenn. AP Photo/George Walker IV

Government

Prison operator under federal scrutiny spent millions settling mistreatment claims, AP finds

OCT. 18, 2024

Israel Palestinians Inside Prison
Palestinian boxer Muazzaz Abayat, 37, holds his 2-month-old son Mohammed and daughter Mira, 5, at home in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, days after his release from Israeli prison, frail, disoriented and with no initial memory of his family. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Human rights

Released Palestinians describe worsening abuses in Israeli prisons

AUG. 12, 2024

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Heather Jarvis pauses as she speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio, Oct. 19, 2023. Jarvis is part of the fastest-growing prison population in the country, one of more than 190,000 women held in some form of confinement in the United States as of this year. Their numbers grew by more than 500% between 1980 and 2021. AP PHOTO / CAROLYN KASTER

Prisons

Life after prison can be harder than life behind bars, especially for women

APRIL 19, 2024

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Escaped inmate Casey White arrives at the Lauderdale County Courthouse in Florence, Ala., after waiving extradition in Indiana Tuesday, May 10, 2022 (Dan Busey/The TimesDaily via AP)

Alabama

AP Exclusive: Inside the 11-day search for escaped Alabama inmate and his jailer accomplice

MAY 20, 2022

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Joseph Moore stands for a portrait at a park in Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 8, 2021. Moore worked for nearly 10 years as an undercover informant for the FBI, infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in Florida, foiling at least two murder plots according to investigators, and investigating ties between law enforcement and the white supremacist organization. To keep a lifeline to his true character, Moore claims to have never used racial slurs while in character–even as his klan brethren tossed them around casually. (AP Photo / Robert Bumsted)

Florida

‘This is Joseph Moore’: FBI informant inside KKK reveals himself in riveting AP interview

DEC. 31, 2021

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A pickup truck with a Confederate flag-themed decal is parked outside the Reception and Medical Center, a Florida prison hospital where new inmates are processed, in Lake Butler, Fla., April 16, 2021. An AP investigation revealed state prison guards openly touting associations with white supremacist groups to intimidate inmates and Black colleagues, a persistent practice that goes unpunished and is allowed to fester in Florida and prisons elsewhere in the U.S. (AP Photo / David Goldman, File)

Florida

AP investigation reveals white supremacists working in Florida prisons, race-based abuse of inmates

NOV. 26, 2021

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In an AP illustration, people are arrested on the street by Myanmar’s military. Since its takeover of the government in February, the the country’s military has used torture against those it has detained in a methodical and systemic way across the country, the AP found in rare interviews with 28 people imprisoned and released in recent months.(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)

Activists

With rare interviews, AP reveals Myanmar military using systematic torture across country

NOV. 5, 2021

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A pickup truck with a Confederate-themed sticker is parked outside the Reception and Medical Center, Florida’s prison hospital where new inmates are processed, in Lake Butler, Fla., April 16, 2021. In 2013, at a prison dorm room in the facility, Warren Williams, a Black inmate who suffered from severe anxiety and depression fought and bit Thomas Driver, a white prison guard. When Williams was released a few months later, Driver and two fellow members of the Ku Klux Klan conspired to kill him. The KKK man they enlisted to do the killing was an FBI informant. (AP Photo / David Goldman)

Domestic terrorism

Deep reporting on a failed KKK murder plot reveals white supremacists working in Florida prison

AUG. 6, 2021

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