Throughout the ordeal, Marcela faithfully took a food parcel each week to the Izalco prison where her son was housed – a plastic bag filled with “cornflakes, oatmeal, bread and cookies”, she ...

Though he is provided with a straw mat, Matthew says he prefers to sleep on the concrete floor of his cell in the maximum-security wing of Singapore’s Changi Prison. “It’s more cooling that ...

Former Marine Paul Whelan described the “torture” he endured while being held captive in a Russian prison for years. “The Russian government wanted to put pressure on the United States by ...

For eight years, he had been held in a windowless cell of an underground prison, dark night without end. Now, the guards ordered him to finish his prayer, then removed the thick blindfold and ...

Frequently, hip-hop artists have found themselves on the wrong side of the law and are locked up in jail or have to serve a lengthy prison bid. XXL looks at over two dozen rappers who are in jail ...

Steve Bannon—a high-profile conservative podcaster and ally of former President Donald Trump—will be released from prison as scheduled next week after serving his full sentence for contempt of ...

Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91.

Even if the judge sentences Trump, he may not sentence him to prison, but give him a less restrictive punishment to account for the fact that he is the president. In the US Constitution ...

When any royal visits a prison, the governor inevitably chooses only the most trusted residents to take part in any meet-and-greet. So, when Princess Anne came to HMP Erlestoke in Wiltshire in ...

The Stanford prison experiment, a prison simulation that took place over two weeks in 1971, forever shifted the field of psychology and its interpretation of human nature. Now, a new docuseries by ...

Mahmood said the prison service is "on the brink of disaster", and admitted "prison is not working at the moment", with prison places running out and many prisoners reoffending. The justice ...

The second part of the scheme comes as the government announced a review of sentencing, chaired by former justice secretary David Gauke, which will explore tougher punishments outside prison and ...