A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial.

For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison facility in Chino, has been abusing his patients, according to a civil lawsuit ...

In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided ...

In Prison Cell 211, a human rights lawyer finds himself stuck behind the walls when a deadly riot erupts in the Ciudad Juárez prison where he was visiting a client. Not great! The six-episode ...

Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie, published recently in English, documents serious limitations of the study – including that student “guards” were actually ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has temporarily blocked prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men’s facilities and terminating their access to hormone therapy ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said the autopsy results in the death of Robert Brooks, who was beaten by prison guards, should prompt the swift filing of criminal charges. By Ed Shanahan An autopsy ...

Four years after they raided the Capitol and assaulted police officers, a group of some of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters are now free men.

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...

Amir Daftari is a Newsweek reporter based in London, specializing in global affairs with a focus on the Middle East. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously worked at ...

Amid the torture and inhumanity of Saydnaya, stories of survival and unbroken spirit offer powerful testimony to the human ...

It's the latest in a series of cases involving Michigan Department of Corrections officers allegedly smuggling drugs into prison to sell to prisoners. Andre Taylor, 59, of Clinton Township ...