The Briefing Room. Why do we have such overcrowded prisons? Audio, 28 minutesThe Briefing Room Why do we have such overcrowded prisons? Britain has the highest number of prisoners per head of ...

Some things are better off from a distance; the closer you get to them, the scarier they become. One of those things is prison. We love watching documentaries about them, and we dig shows that revolve ...

His lawyers said the U.S. plan is to have the Iraqi government house him at the Karkh prison outside Baghdad, the former site of a U.S. detention operation called Camp Cropper that held hundreds ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina federal prison supervisor has been convicted after ...

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 ...

1:29 Mozambique protests: Police fire tear gas at biggest demonstration yet against disputed election At least 6,000 inmates escaped from a high-security prison in Mozambique’s capital on ...

KARACHI, Dec 26 (Reuters) - A Pakistani military court sentenced sixty civilians to jail time ranging from 2 to 10 years in connection with attacks on military facilities following the arrest of ...

Hundreds of inmates have escaped a prison riot in Mozambique's capital which has left 33 people dead and 15 injured. About 1,534 people managed to flee the jail in Maputo on Wednesday, but 150 of ...

Riot linked to disputed election results Justice Minister claims riot started inside prison, unrelated to outside protests Over 1,500 escaped, 150 recaptured; rise in crime expected, police ...

Saydnaya prison sits on a forbidding hill about half an hour's drive from the centre of Damascus. In the last few days the entrance has been repainted in the green, white and black of Syria's ...

It has been over 25 years since the release of “The Shawshank Redemption,” a prison escape film based on the 1982 Stephen King novella “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.” ...

Some 11,000 security personnel were deployed to Tocorón prison, which had been run by inmates for years. Prisoners were able to roam freely inside the penitentiary, which had hotel-like ...