Some 6,000 prisoners broke free from a high-security prison in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on Wednesday, according to police authorities, as weeks-long post-election violence continues to rock ...

A suspected riot inside a jail in Mozambique’s capital has left at least 33 people dead and 15 injured, while more than 1,500 prisoners escaped, authorities said. Police general commander ...

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 ...

Robert Maudsley, known infamously as Hannibal the Cannibal and the UK's longest-serving prisoner, is facing his 51st year of incarceration this Christmas season. The chilling quadruple killer, now ...

According to investigators, Thompson was booked into jail last month on three counts of assault on a public servant and for evading arrest. He has been locked in solitary confinement for 23 hours ...

Former YouTube streamer Johnny Somali faces increased jail time in South Korea due to potential new charges. Confiscation of Somali's phone by South Korean authorities due to deepfake concerns ...

A 54-year-old man who repeatedly sexually assaulted his children's teenage babysitter has been jailed for six years. Martin O'Brien, of Gurrane, Belclare, Tuam, Co Galway, pleaded guilty to four ...

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The most common charge was riot. At least 200 people have already been sentenced, with most sent to jail. Some individuals received multiple sentences. The average prison sentence length was two ...

RnB singer Akon says his much-delayed plans for Akon City - an African metropolis on the Senegalese coast - are "100,000% moving". Although goats are currently grazing on the site, he says that ...

4 Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports show that the gap in the rate of jail incarceration between Black and White people dropped by 22% between 2011 and 2021. 5 However, these reports contain ...