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

"Inmates would always say if the public ever found out what the women's federal penitentiary was all about, there would be a ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is shutting down its Terminal Island facility near Los Angeles over concerns about crumbling ...

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

The federal Bureau of Prisons is closing a California lockup that was once home to Al Capone and Charles Manson over concerns about crumbling infrastructure, including falling concrete that threatens ...

The decision to close the facility, at least temporarily, “is not easy, but is absolutely necessary,” Director William K.