On March 4, he was sentenced by the High Court to a jail term of 14 years, three months and eight weeks, and 12 strokes of the cane. The man is believed to be the first person convicted of raping ...

The result is a tightly packed, thought-provoking crime thriller featuring characters less concerned with busting out of prison than they are with breaking free of themselves. In Inside ...

Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, raised concerns about the treatment of the detainees, citing a letter from an unnamed prison employee who described conditions at the federal lockup in Los Angeles ...

In jail since 2023, he has been facing several court cases charging him with offenses ranging from corruption to misuse of power. He denies the accusations. As we settle into 2025, I reflect on ...

A pungent smell of detergent and rotten food hits me as we walk through this enormous high-security prison. Inmates press themselves up against the bars to look at us. There are no smiles ...

The litigation begins to gain traction. Interior of a solitary confinement jail cell under construction at the Five Points Correctional Facility in 2000. Steve Jacobs/Times Union Advertisement ...

Lucknow: The state's 76th jail, with a capacity to lodge over 500 inmates, came up in Shravasti on Wednesday. Until now, those arrested in Shravasti and sent to judicial remand had to be lodged at ...

Within this subset there have been some stellar prison films. Everynight, Everynight (1994) still packs a punch, and the opening and closing sections of Chopper (2000), set in prison, are the most ...

Before the early 1990s, people who were sentenced to 10 years in prison might be released after serving roughly half that long. That’s because of policies that allowed incarcerated individuals ...

Australian cinema’s penchant for a prison drama is a practical concern rather than a psychological one. Obviously, a confined talkfest is cheap to produce and showing broken, violent people in ...

PASIR MAS, Feb 25 — A woman in a viral video showing her posing as a guest at a wedding and stealing from the host’s house was today sentenced to 24 months in jail and fined RM3,000 for the offence.