A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate ...

The ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas is due to take effect from 8.30 a.m. (0630 ...

Israel is expected on Sunday to begin releasing more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, according to the terms of the ...

Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and death.

She said she had read that Italy had arrested an Iranian engineer three days earlier at the request of the United States. The ...

A French science historian dug deep into the true story of the Stanford prison experiment – revealing ‘guards’ were actually coached to be brutal. His findings are now available in English.

The Israeli justice ministry published a list of 95 Palestinian prisoners, the majority women, who are to be freed starting Sunday as part of the first exchange for Israeli captives under a Gaza ...

Every week for years now, family members and friends of Ukrainian prisoners of war, as well as many other Ukrainians, keep organising rallies across Ukrainian cities to raise awareness about those ...

Shannon Agofsky was sentenced in 2004 for the killing of a prisoner in a federal prison. Billie Jerome Allen was sentenced in 1998 for his involvement in an armed bank robbery during which a bank ...

Hundreds of Californian prisoners have been deployed to help battle the fires raging across the Los Angeles area, with some working 24-hour shifts for as little as $26.90, or just over $1 an hour.

Prisoner firefighters working 24-hour shifts are paid just over $26 per day. As brush fires continue to spread across Los Angeles County, more than 1,000 prisoners, working as "incarcerated ...