For years, Narmadapuram Central Jail in central Madhya Pradesh, like most prisons in the state, spent heavily on sourcing snacks in bulk from ou ...

Women hoping to visit their loved ones at New York prisons are being turned away after scanners pick up what they say are menstrual products. Some have had their visitation rights suspended.

Nicole Boynton was the first woman freed as part of Georgia’s Survivor Justice Act, putting a national spotlight on how ...

Survivors of abuse at a shuttered federal prison known as “the rape club” are teaming up with local activists to keep ICE out ...

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i ...

In March, Trump officials flew the Venezuelan men to the prison, despite a verbal order from Boasberg for the aircraft to ...

British police arrested and later released former Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, amid a probe into his ties ...

A new penal code has been published by Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, which will legalise acts of physical punishment against women.

‘A thunder punch to the stomach’: Son of British couple jailed in Iran shocked at severe 10-year sentence - After more than a year held in Iranian prisons, the Foremans finally had a 10-year sentence ...

New Taliban penal code puts husbands on par with ‘slave masters’ and legalises domestic violence - A Kabul-based legal adviser says it is now ‘impossible for women to get any justice’ in the ...

LONDON, Feb 19 (Reuters) – British foreign minister Yvette Cooper on Thursday condemned as “totally unjustifiable” the 10-year sentence given to a British couple in Iran for spying, saying the ...