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 ...

A 20-year-old male prisoner makes coffee inside Aylesbury prison where speciality coffee company Redemption Roasters is training him with industry-level skills so they can work in the coffee sector ...

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 ...

A federal judge has approved a final $6.75 million settlement in a class action lawsuit involving violence against prisoners at Massachusetts maximum security prison. The approval means that more than ...

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.

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Belarus freed 52 political prisoners on Thursday, as the United States announced it was lifting some sanctions on the isolated country's national airline. Belarus, a close ally of ...

The Belarusian state has freed hundreds of people considered political prisoners in a bid to improve ties with the West.