Handcuffed and dressed in jail-issue tracksuits, a small batch of prisoners wait in line to be marched on to a transport ...

We thought the best way to get into the conversation was to bypass all of the stereotypical conversations that people imagine having with people serving long-term sentences and really dive into ...

The rebellion at Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County began around 1 a.m. on Wednesday, a union rep said.

Opened in the wake of the terror attacks on the US in 2001, Guantanamo Bay has held some of the most dangerous people ...

highlighting the prison’s harsh conditions. Inmates wait to be attended by health personnel (Picture: Reuters) Members of the media walk inside a sector (Picture: Reuters) Many human rights ...

The 64-year-old Yan Pei-Ming is a contemporary artist who has been living in France since 1981. He is known for his “epic-sized” portraits of figures such as Chairman Mao, St. Pope John Paul II, Bruce ...

Still feeling weak, he walked slowly to an office in the front of the prison. Inside sat French Hill and Chrissy Houlahan, two US members of Congress, one from each party. Gambaryan could hardly ...

A horrific new video shows charred bodies left inside a female prison block in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where hundreds of women were raped before being burned alive. The atrocity ...

The prison is thought to house some of the UK's most dangerous female inmates. Speaking from inside Houseblock Four, one inmate said the killer nurse did not have any hope of release. She was said to ...

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Her husband, Vlad, was alive, said the voice on the phone, and was now being held in a prison inside Russia. The stranger had found her name and number on a tiny scrap of paper, smuggled out of ...

These chilling photos capture the harrowing realities inside the "hell on Earth" jails ... (equivalent to almost half the UK’s current prison population), CECOT was built two years ago.