Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French police on Thursday caught a second inmate who had escaped from prison in late November by sawing through cell bars and ...

Aspects of daily life behind bars include cells so crowded that detainees cannot move without climbing over one another, and inmates sleeping on thin mattresses on the floor for weeks or months.

Conditions inside Ireland’s prisons are “among the worst” in Europe, TDs and senators been told. The Oireachtas Justice Committee convened yesterday afternoon to discuss the latest appraisal of the ...

The Public Defender's Office finds widespread abuses against Palestinian detainees, including systematic violence, food ...

Asharq Al Awsat France's prisons risk transforming into "human warehouses", the Council of Europe said on Thursday, as overcrowding, poor conditions and violence strain a system at record inmate ...

A Sun-Times review of more than 100 lawsuits against Centurion Health shows a recurring pattern: People in prison repeatedly complain about a health issue, are ignored by correctional and medical ...

French police on Thursday caught a second inmate who had escaped from prison in late November by sawing through cell bars and using bedsheets, sources close to the case told AFP. The 19-year-old ...