Political as well as criminal prisoners in Germany during the Cold War era were forced to build flatpack furniture for IKEA.

A lawsuit filed this week by the prison reform advocacy group Florida Justice Institute says that extreme heat in ...

Prisoners are staging the second protest in a week over conditions at HMP Glenochil in Clackmannanshire. The BBC learned that ...

Tropical Storm Helene devastated Western North Carolina, including several prisons, causing inmates to be transferred to ...

All three plaintiffs said they suffered from heat illness this summer amid record-high temperatures and no A/C in the ...

Global furniture retailer IKEA has pledged to donate €6 million (₹53 crore) to a government fund to compensate victims of ...

Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian parliament's commissioner for human rights, called on Russia on Sunday to provide a list of ...

U.N.-backed human rights experts say Russia’s torture of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war is a crime against humanity ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Cheryl Strange, a key figure in "gender-affirming care" for trans inmates, to the ...

"I experience extreme anxiety and feel unsafe because I know the water will be harmful when I drink it. But I have to drink ...

Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent look back on finding fame in their teens and experiencing the highs and lows of the music ...

According to testimony that Department of Corrections Secretary Ricky Dixon gave to state lawmakers last year, 75% of the ...