Home Office data shows that the highest-paid prisoners in Britain are earning more than the officers who guard them, with the ...

The General Administration of Correctional Institutions has announced plans to transfer 32 Sri Lankan prisoners serving ...

A government spokesman in Pakistan’s volatile northwest says Shiite and Sunni Muslim tribes have agreed to a cease-fire ...

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Certain countries, owing to their strict laws, high crime rates, or systemic social issues, house extraordinarily high ...

Nearly one in three parole applications were shelved in the last financial year due to a lack of housing in the Tasmanian ...

Law Minister Supratman Andi Agtas told Reuters on Saturday that Indonesia had agreed “in principle” to hand the five ...

Prisoners deemed "an immediate risk" to a specific person or members of the public by governors earlier this year may be released under proposals to be fast tracked through Holyrood this week. A total ...

“We have discussed this issue many times with Mr Prabowo and he approved the steps being formulated by the government which ...

The Trump administration is expected to take a strong stance against dictatorships in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, with a ...

WHEN a squad of Russian soldiers forced their ­prisoners to kneel in the dirt, all Yulia Mykytenko could do was watch. As the ...

“There were over 35 prisoner of war camps set up in Wisconsin in 1943,” explains Pam Ekholm of the Wisconsin Historical ...