Prisoners’ families attempt to break open jail doors with a crowbar after rumours several inmates had died in a riot Family members of inmates in a Mexican prison clashed with riot police on ...

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 ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Seven inmates are dead after a prison riot in southern Mexico, where inmates resisted transfers to other jails and fought police with guns and knives. Four police officers and ...

DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than ...

AKRON, Ohio — A Copley man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after he was convicted ... men before executing three of them at point-blank range and nearly killing the fourth ...

Lawyers for the state's corrections department say the hot conditions don't pose a substantial risk of serious harm to the inmates. We're Accountants. Here Are 6 Things We'd Never Do When Filing ...

(CNN) — Iran’s most prominent human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Narges Mohammadi, said she will never stop fighting for democracy and equality, and she doesn’t fear ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former Alabama police sergeant has been sentenced to over a year in federal prison after pleading guilty in August to beating a man in a jail cell. The U.S. Department ...

Speaking exclusively to CNN while on a three-week medical release from prison, Mohammadi said, “Not even the prison walls and all these convictions can ever stop me.” Mohammadi has spent most ...