At least 240 prisoners have escaped in a prison break in Nigeria's north-central Kogi State after gunmen carried out a blitz attack on the facility, prison authorities said Monday.
Dozens of prisoners reportedly complained of stomach issues in the days after Hurricane Ida as Taconic Correctional Facility and Bedford Hills continue to grapple with contaminated water issues.
A handcuffed Rikers Island inmate stole a bus with prisoners on board and crashed it into a wall on Thursday night — in another wild incident at the embattled facility, jail sources said.
Ten percent of Kandahar Province Central General Prison's population are considered to be convicted or accused criminals. The rest are drug addicts swept from the streets in Afghanistan.
For nearly three years, CNN has been investigating allegations of gross human rights violations and a modern day system of internment camps in China's Xinjiang region. China denies accusations from the US State Department that Beijing detained up to...
Myanmar's junta has freed hundreds of political prisoners from Yangon's Insein prison, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing local media. It follows the junta's announcement that it would free more than 5,600 people arrested for protesting against...
The disturbing reality of life behind bars exposes the insatiable nature of the military's thirst for blood - forcing them to convert community halls and a royal palace into interrogation centers.
Last year was a rough one for Joyce Pequeno, a 28-year-old inmate at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon. Social distancing was rare, she said, and prisoners were dying. Her clemency hearing was postponed. Still, most days she...
Jennifer and Jordan Turpin say they endured years of beatings, verbal abuse, and starvation as virtual prisoners in their parents' Texas home, even contemplating suicide.
Former prisoners at Chinese labor or "re-education" camps recall being raped, abused and given sterilization pills — a move one source says is a form of genocide.
A total of 26,232 stimulus checks were received by inmates in New York state prisons through September, according to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
What will happen to the mask enforcers when their empire finally does fall? Well, I don’t know about Azkaban, but I know Rikers Island always needs wardens.