The lights come up on a bare stage. Two black South African actors, dressed in prison uniforms, mime shovelling sand into ...

Medical records reveal correction officers blocked medical personnel from accessing her cell six times before her death.

Prisoners are human beings and should not be brought to open court restrained in chains as though they were animals, Colombo Additional Magistrate Pasan Amarasinghe has told prison officers. The ...

Prisons officers have thwarted an attempt by a woman to smuggle in narcotics concealed in a broom she brought to Kalutara remand prison recently. Prison officers found four grams of heroin, four grams ...

He has since been held in an isolation cell on Imrali island in the Sea of Marmara ... and did his first stint in prison in 1972. He set up the PKK six years later, then spent years on the ...

As former prisoners reunite with their families, questions remain about the prison’s hidden sections and the full extent of its brutal history under the Assad regime. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS ...

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 ...

with a focus on the Montagne Posee Prison riot, the Assumption Island Hotel project, the recent return of two Seychellois hostages from Iran, and investigations into gas-related incidents earlier ...

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 ...

Frequently, hip-hop artists have found themselves on the wrong side of the law and are locked up in jail or have to serve a lengthy prison bid. XXL looks at over two dozen rappers who are in jail ...

Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the "human slaughterhouse", Sky News saw the conditions that people were kept in until the fall of the Assad regime. Sky News' lead world presenter ...