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

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 ...

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 ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

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 ...

Chief International Correspondent James Longman reports from Saydnaya prison. Editor's note: This reporting contains graphic descriptions. SAYDNAYA, Syria -- We've just been to the Saydnaya prison ...

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 ...

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 ...

Syrian rescuers are searching through the notorious Sednaya Prison near Damascus to find and free detainees as they uncover abuses that took place during the rule of ousted President Bashar al-Assad.