A man who seriously injured a teenager by throwing acid in his face has been jailed for more than eight years. Gilson Martins, 23, of Ashton Street in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, planned the attack, ...

Judaism teaches that speech is a form of resistance. We must defend free expression, even for those we disagree with.

TRAVEL: by Eric Mackenzie Lamb A few years ago, I traveled to South Africa to write a story about Nelson Mandela, the country ...

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

OKAYAMA—Newly found photographs of scribbles on prison cell walls at a sanitarium could shed light on the plight of leprosy patients who were locked up for attempting to escape or causing ...

In 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested and ... attended the trial as an official observer and when Mandela was sentenced to five years in jail, he was adopted as a prisoner of conscience. While in ...

'This thing is going to backfire': Toy factory CEO reacts to Trump tariffs ...

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 ...

In the statement released, the trustees said the prison's management, including their appointed spokesperson, had attended a media launch in May where the auction of Mandela's cell was outlined in a ...

A new £400 million super-prison has opened where inmates will be able to choose the names of their cell blocks and get a say in how it is run. HMP Millsike, in north Yorkshire, has also adopted a ...

Kristi Noem’s trip to a prison in El Salvador drew social media attention for the homeland security secretary’s choice to wear a gold Rolex in such a setting. By Joseph Bernstein Joseph ...

The shock attack occurred just hours after Matthews, 26, walked free from his prison cell under the Government’s early release scheme to ease chronic overcrowding in the nation’s jails.