Amnesty International described it as a “human slaughterhouse,” where, other rights groups say, tens of thousands of people ...

The worst jails in England and Wales have been named and shamed by the Home Office's prisons chief. Brixton, Dartmoor and Holloway came bottom of a new league table compiled by the Prison Service.

Sam Mangel, a federal prison consultant, has described the MDC as one of the worst jails in the United States of America. He ...

With England's prisons regularly described as being in crisis, because of budget and staff cuts, it takes a special level of incompetence to be called the country's worst jail. But that is ...

Sky News sees bags of faeces, nooses, a torture chamber and an alleged "crushing machine" inside the facility, warned about for years by human rights groups as a symbol of the brutality of the Assad ...

Inspectors at Liverpool jail found filthy, leaking toilets and some areas so hazardous they could not be cleaned Inmates at Liverpool prison are being kept in the worst living conditions ...

jails and detention centers – the largest such population in any country. Although incarcerated people are locked away from the outside world, they are even more vulnerable to the impacts of ...