The guard would bang on the door and say: "Can you hear that beating ... old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s governor has ordered more than a dozen state prison staffers fired over the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this month. Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday that she ...

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 ...

Dormitories at the prison do not have air conditioning, and the lawsuit said the Department of Corrections has "chosen to detain hundreds of elderly and disabled people at Dade Correctional ...

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 ...

Dormitories at the prison do not have air conditioning, and the lawsuit said the Department of Corrections has “chosen to detain hundreds of elderly and disabled people at Dade Correctional ...

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 ...

(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 ...