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, ...

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

A solitary confinement cell at Central Prison in Raleigh ... They have called on the prison system to adopt the Nelson ...

Earlier this week Politicsweb published an article by Professor Stephen Ellis on what appeared to be the recent release by the Nelson Mandela Foundation Centre of Memory of Nelson Mandela's 1975 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Secretary of State said HMP Millsike “sets the standard for the future because it is a prison designed to cut crime”. She was shown round the complex, which will receive its first prisoners at the ...

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.

Audits of three Michigan prisons found a myriad of issues including falsified cell search logbooks, failures to search incoming vehicles and people, and missed tool inspections At one prison ...

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