The residents of this jungle region have been protesting for 12 days. They have cut off the main roads of the province and ...

Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's mega "extermination" prison featured 72 types of brutal torture - including security guards named "Hitler" who would torment inmates if they refused to ...

With Category B, 845-capacity HMP Garth and 1,192-capacity HMP Wymott and the new prison, this will mean more than 3,700 inmates across the mega-site compared to a village population of just 2,600.

An El Paso man was sentenced to three decades in prison after pleading guilty to fatally shooting his mother as they struggled for a gun, court records show. Jake Butler Bean, 32, pleaded guilty ...

After rebel forces overran Damascus on Saturday, toppling the government of President Bashar al-Assad, thousands of prisoners stumbled out of Syria's nightmarish prisons, suddenly freed after ...

Crowds have descended on the notorious Saydnaya prison, which had become synonymous with arbitrary detention, torture and murder. Under the glaring sun, people poured toward the notorious facility ...

The first hour-long drama produced by HBO, "Oz" remains one of the network's most acclaimed shows to this day. A structural engineer installs himself in a prison he helped design, in order to save his ...

The image, with the rawness of when nothing is staged, is chilling. Thousands of Syrians walk in a hurry uphill for miles (traffic jams prevent them from getting close) to reach Sednaya as soon as ...