Two French prisoners escaped from jail after sawing through the bars of their cells and using bedsheets to get out of the facility, a prosecutor said Thursday. Guards noticed the break-out shortly ...

Larysa would have been happier staying in prison for the final four months of her sentence, if she could have gone home at the end of it. Instead she was bussed over the border from Belarus into ...

Two prisoners escaped from a French jail using bed sheets after sawing through the bars of their cell, a prosecutor said Thursday. France has some of the worst prison overcrowding in Europe, and staff ...

Palestinian rights groups say over 21,000 arrests were recorded in West Bank and Jerusalem in the past two years ...

Lucy Letby and Constance Marten have become two of the most notorious prisoners in the UK. They are both serving their ...

Former mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno speaks during an anti-immigration protest in Rome, Italy, on Oct. 14, 2017. (Jacopo Landi / NurPhoto via AFP) PALERMO, Sicily (CN) — An unlikely figure has emerged ...

Serkan Onur Yılmaz, a political prisoner held at Bolu F-Type Prison, has passed the 350th day of his hunger strike against the new high-security prison model. Yılmaz’s health condition is critical.

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Though Belarus has released dozens of prisoners, those who've been freed say the authoritarian government often delivers one final act of repression by confiscating their passports before deporting ...