The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open.

She found "the worst thing was the mental pressure and tensions inside the prison". Finding a quiet place in the crowded cells, where people spend most of their days sitting on their beds ...

Inside Marcy Correctional Facility, the news of Robert Brooks’ death – while undeniably tragic – did not come as a complete ...

The brutalization of human beings in the huge American prison gulag, with its nearly 2 million inmates, accounting for about 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, is entirely routine.

Inside the walls of this detention center ... Rafi spent 20 years in New York state prisons – including Attica Correctional ...

Unions and organizations across New York State are calling for transparency in the recent death of an inmate inside a New ...

"I wanted the second Holy Door to be the one here, at a prison," Francis told the inmates. "I wanted all of us, inside or out ...

Supreme Court standards prohibit officer use of force only if it is "malicious and sadistic." Courts rarely rule that extreme ...

A former UK prison governor has revealed what Christmas dinner is like for the country's inmates. Vanessa Frake worked with Moors Murderer Myra Hindley, who, along with her lover Ian Brady ...

Inside Syria's notorious Sednaya prison, dubbed the "human slaughterhouse", Sky News saw the conditions that people were kept in until the fall of the Assad regime. Sky News' lead world presenter ...

Thankfully, it’s not a human head. Or, rather, it’s not just a human head. The head that inside the ice block is very much attached to the body it comes with. Both body and head belong to ...