Alexei Navalny, a thorn in the side of the Kremlin and Russia’s most prominent political dissident, died in prison after ...

Dissident director Mahnaz Mohammadi on depicting Iran’s Evin Prison, where she spent time behind bars, in Berlin Film 'Roya.' ...

This week on Behind The Lens, recent declines in solitary confinement had come because of human-rights activists like Kiana Calloway, and churches are being outfitted with backup and solar power to ...

In Stanley Prison, the oldest in Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai sits in a dark, windowless cell, completely alone. He has been held in ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on ...

The self-professed white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslims in New Zealand’s deadliest mass shooting was pleased to be ...

The media tycoon, a Chinese-born British citizen, had been a persistent critic of Beijing. The sentence is the harshest penalty so far under a national security law.

The ACLU of Oklahoma and other organizations have successfully advocated for the end of indefinite solitary confinement for ...

Maryland correctional authorities have recorded seven inmate deaths over the past two months, a pattern that criminal justice ...

Prison officers are failing to put some of Britain’s most dangerous inmates into solitary confinement over fears of challenges by human rights lawyers.

Women hoping to visit their loved ones at New York prisons are being turned away after scanners pick up what they say are ...

“Remember when I told you that I was arrested, I was in prison with Diddy, the president of Honduras, and Sam Bankman-Fried,” Hernandez told his fans, on a video he later posted to Instagram. “And you ...