A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention ...

Prosecutors accuse the official, named as Fahad A, of torturing dozens of prisoners in jail run by Syrian intelligence.

Prisons and lockups that jailed tens of thousands of people during Assad’s rule are now crowded with Syrians detained by President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s security forces and held without formal charges.

Based on a six-year investigation and contraband cellphone footage that courageous incarcerated men supplied from inside one of America’s most dangerous and dysfunctional prison systems, filmmakers ...

German prosecutors have charged a suspected former member of Syrian intelligence with crimes against humanity and the ‍torture and murder of dozens of prisoners held in a Damascus prison under Bashar ...

Documented Palestinian testimonies reveal the use of sexual violence, including rape, as a systematic means of torture inside Israeli prisons ...

Authorities are searching for Alexus Percival-Lolley, a Birmingham inmate who escaped from a job site in Hoover this ...

According to the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC), 27-year-old Alexus Uniqu Percival-Lolley left from an assigned job ...

The DOJ has vowed to prosecute people accused of assaulting federal officers during protests of Trump’s immigration policies.

Two men say they experienced the kind of abuse highlighted in recent reports on Israel's treatment of prisoners, which Israel ...

A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Ahmed al Ahmed has accepted the $2.5m raised after he wrestled a gun from Bondi shooter Sajid Akram; NSW Police says there is ...