On April 12, 2022, Navapolatsk court Judge Iryna Zharava ruled to transfer Yauhen Afnahel to a prison regime for 2 years. The trial was held via video link from the colony. The political prisoner was ...

Inside North Carolina prisons, 13 inmates killed themselves last year. Three more died in January. State officials say they ...

The 18-year-old knifeman took a taxi to The Hart Space, which was hosting a summer holiday Taylor Swift-themed dance class, ...

Three prisoners found hanging in their cells in the space of three weeks died in an "overwhelmed" jail, a jury has found. Anthony Binfield, Rolandas Karbauskas and David Richards were inmates at HMP ...

Having opened in 1829, this Quaker-inspired prison sought to reform prisoners using isolation and reflection ... many is American gangster Al Capone's cell. Bear in mind that this attraction ...

Anthony Binfield, David Richards and Rolandas Karbauskas all died at HMP Lowdham after being found with ligatures around ...

She initially thought the knock on her door was ... Sala shared a cell with Farzaneh, an Iranian woman also held at Evin Prison. This companionship provided some relief from isolation.

n the summer of 1962, the unthinkable happened at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a prison once considered ... and the distant clanging of unseen cell doors have become part of the island's haunted ...

To the extent that the dictatorship must be condemned…we must look for mechanisms that can help alleviate hunger.” ...

A mother admitted to setting fire to her Grand Rapids home while her children were inside, court documents show, telling ...

Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko often claimed in his three decades in power that Belarus has no political prisoners, but activists say it currently holds about 1,300 of them. Many endure ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...