More than two years after the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students shocked the rural community of Moscow, ...

Nova Scotia resident Lisa Adams was kept for 16 days in a solitary room with no running water or flushing toilet under ...

Claims about a brain implant technology that compresses prison sentences into minutes are based on a concept, not actual ...

The Supreme Court on Monday morning added seven new cases, covering issues ranging from campaign-finance regulations to the ...

A prison governor has suggested that elderly prisoners could be moved to care homes in the community, to meet their needs ...

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

Sergei Tikhanovsky was kept isolated in bare, tiny cells and tells the BBC that Belarus must free other political prisoners.

Critics say the jail’s cage-like enclosures constitute a form of solitary confinement that exacerbates mental illness and ...

"My Dad is 57 and was in and out of prison for years. He still eats with his hand clutched around the utensil and hovers his ...

"My Dad is 57 and was in and out of prison for years. He still eats with his hand clutched around the utensil and hovers his ...

An inmate at Gwanda Prison, Tiisetso Ngulube (56), who is serving time for assault, had a year added to his jail time after he was convicted for drug dealing while in prison.Ngulube was jointly ...