Dangerous prisons around the world exist, with some prisons having entire cities located inside them. These, in particular, are the most violent prisons in the world.a ...

Together, they reveal how a global vision of mass incarceration is spreading, one cellblock at a time. These facilities ...

El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown ...

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Conditions have sharply deteriorated since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a report from Israel’s Public ...

South Dakota leads the nation in female incarceration. A new $87M women’s prison in Rapid City aims to expand rehabilitation ...

Former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman was convicted by a Russian court on Wednesday of a new assault on prison staff and sentenced ...

The former head of the notorious Haitian gang 400 Mawozo was sentenced on Wednesday in a U.S. court to life in prison for masterminding the 2021 kidnapping of a group of American missionaries.