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

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.

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Several of Latin America’s most powerful criminal organizations were not forged in borderlands, the streets, or jungle hideouts but inside the region’s prisons. Overcrowded, u ...

A federal judge has ordered Georgia's prison system to provide hormone therapy for transgender inmates. U.S. District Judge Victoria Marie Calvert says that a state law denying such care violates ...

Clashes that erupted among prisoners in one of Ecuador’s most notorious prisons have left 13 inmates dead. Authorities said the violence broke out on Sunday following the “detonation of ...

A 32-year-old Rikers Island inmate died behind bars early Sunday — the 14th in-custody death at the Big Apple jail complex this year, Correction Department officials said. Aramis Furse “appeared ...

The last of three inmates who escaped a St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, jail after removing mortar and concrete blocks from a jail wall has been captured more than two weeks after escaping, authorities ...

I served as a U.S. Marine before spending my career running some of America’s most complex prisons. Those years taught me about leadership, structure and the human cost when systems bend and break.

A 24-year-old former corrections officer at the Atlantic County jail has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a female inmate in her cell. Sebastian Flores-Huamani is charged with official ...

UTICA, N.Y. — A former Mid-State Corrections Officer who pleaded guilty to his involvement in the death of an inmate is now facing sex abuse charges. The New York State Police said on Dec. 1 that it ...