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

Syria braces to discover the fate of over 100,000 inmates subjected to horrific abuse as rescue teams liberate the Sednaya ...

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 ...

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 ...

Syrian rescuers searched a jail synonymous with the worst atrocities of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's rule, as people in ...