Erik Ramsey’s suicide in solitary confinement highlights rising mental illness and a jump in such deaths in North Carolina ...

Former President Rodrigo Duterte celebrated his 80th birthday inside a detention cell of the ... as in the case of Nelson Mandela of South Africa, who, despite being in prison for many years ...

During his lifetime, Nelson Mandela was accused of many things ... where he would die in his prison cell. Russia’s 1999 apartment bombings gave Vladimir Putin his opening to crush dissent ...

A Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which was co-chaired by the internationally renowned cleric Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was established to uncover the atrocities committed by the apartheid ...

I stood in the cold, damp cells of Robben Island, where the icy winter air cut through the thin fabric of skimpy prison uniforms ... In Tata Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom, I walked ...

It was late at night on 10 December 1987 when prison officers had woken Mzolisi ... paving the way for anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela to become the first black president four years later.

Image Visitors at isolation cell in an apartheid-era prison that ... the country’s Black majority in squalor. Yet President Nelson Mandela largely allowed white South Africans to keep their ...

visceral power of a tale of human dignity and resistance by two prisoners rehearsing Antigone on a prison island that was clearly a stand in for Robben Island, where the world’s most famous political ...