Summers, of Outram Street, Stockton ... Summers was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Busby, of Newton Aycliffe, was sentenced to 18 months in prison. The final member of a huge drugs gang which ...

After he imposed the two and a half year jail term, Mr O'Mahony requested the prison sentence be backdated to March 21 when Outram went into custody. Judge Teehan refused the request and directed that ...

At the country’s most notorious prison, Syrians confront their worst fears: that they will never know what happened to the loved ones who disappeared. At the country’s most notorious prison ...

It was a defining moment of the fall of the Syrian regime - rebels freeing inmates from the country's most notorious prison. A week on, four men speak to the BBC about the elation of their release ...

At least seven correctional officers have pleaded guilty or been convicted on charges of sexual abuse at the prison. The case against an eighth officer is still pending. Last year, a former prison ...

Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place has been charged with several counts of torture after being arrested in July for visa fraud ...

The network went viral last week with footage of the startled prisoner being led from the prison by journalist Clarissa Ward, who called it “one of the most extraordinary moments I have ...

Private prisons and other companies that provide detention services are getting ready to cash in on what President-elect Donald Trump has billed as “the largest domestic deportation operation in ...

This week, many families descended upon the notorious military prison on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus, known as Sednaya. In 2017, Amnesty International described the prison as a “human ...

They saw rebels in the prison's corridor instead of guards. "We said 'We are here. Free us,'" one of the inmates, 30-year-old Qasem Sobhi Al-Qabalani, recalls. As the door was shot open ...