RFE/RL spoke to women who had been imprisoned at the Homyel penal colony on politically motivated charges. Now free and living in exile, they shared stories of enduring cold, rotten food, and slave ...

Female ex-political prisoners from a Belarusian penal colony describe freezing cells, rotten food, psychological abuse, and ...

The bills, which have already passed the State Legislature, would help prevent brutality in prisons, supporters say. But the ...

The Uganda Prisons Service (UPS) has completed a modern housing facility for female inmates at Luzira Women Prison, marking a significant milestone in the country's ongoing efforts to ease congestion ...

Indigenous men have the highest rates of recidivism of any group in Canada. Healing lodges are meant to help break this cycle. Men who go through them are half as likely to end up back in jail ...

A federal judge granted an order separating transgender inmates from female detainees at a Texas correctional facility for ...

For nearly two-and-a-half decades before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the boundary-pushing artist captivated audiences in ...

Italy's parliament on Tuesday approved a law that punishes femicide with life in prison. The vote coincided with the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Writers in U.S. prisons will have a new path to getting their work seen through a website managed by PEN America that includes information on publishers, agents, journalists and other ...

A group of female inmates in San Francisco claims sheriff’s deputies filmed them during a mass jail strip-search with male ...

Former "Chrisley Knows Best" star Julie Chrisley weighs in on Ghislaine Maxwell's alleged preferential treatment in federal ...

Authorities say Gavin Weisenburg and Tanner Thomas had been planning to invade Haiti for over a year, until one thing gave ...