Namazi previously spoke with Amanpour by phone in March 2023 from inside Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, in what was an unprecedented interview. He was the longest-held Iranian-American prisoner ...

A serving prison governor from one of the country's crowded jails has spoken anonymously to Sky News about conditions inside, the reality of early release and why we should rethink who is sent to ...

Now, tourists will be able to get a glimpse for themselves of the fortresslike sandstone prison, where Capote interviewed Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, two drifters who were convicted of murdering ...

Five convicts escaped from a high-security penitentiary in Portugal, in what the authorities said was a well-planned prison break. The inmates reportedly had help from outside to climb over and ...

At least 274 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nigeria’s Borno state following heavy flooding, the Nigerian Correctional Service said, as aid agencies reported more than 1,000 people had ...

A "very dangerous" British prisoner is among five inmates who have escaped from a high-security prison in Portugal. Mark Cameron Roscaleer, 39, had been serving a nine-year sentence for kidnap and ...

Thousands of inmates were released early on Tuesday as part of the government's plan to deal with prison overcrowding. About 1,700 prisoners in England and Wales were freed on the first day of the ...

KINSHASA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - More than 260 female inmates were sexually assaulted during an attempted mass escape from Democratic Republic of Congo's Makala Central Prison this month, an internal ...

I want to tell you instead about the person I have become over the past 17 years in prison and the people I have met here. At Sullivan Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in the ...

Gonzalez received thousands of videos with child sexual abuse material within one month of being paroled from state prison, McEvoy said. “Within days of his release from state prison for ...

A week after the deadly escape attempt at Makala prison, many blame disastrous prison conditions for making a bad situation worse. A police vehicle leaves the Makala central prison in Kinshasa ...

“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again ...