In a ramshackle Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Hayat Shehadeh wrings her hands as she watches the Israel-Hamas war. Her daughter is in Gaza, and she has not spoken to her for a week."I can't sleep. I get up at 3:00 am... I go to watch the telev...

Israel has killed more than 8,000 Palestinians and injured more than 20,000 others in the besieged Gaza Strip as it tries to release about 200 Israeli captives who were taken by Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resista...

A record number of inmates were serving time in France at the start of this month, official data showed Friday, as the country battles serious prison overcrowding.France counted 73,080 inmates in prisons equipped to hold just 60,899 people on April 1...

By AFPAn Arab-Israeli jailed for killing an Israeli soldier was released on Thursday after serving 40 years, officials said, with Israel warning it would not tolerate celebrations glorifying "terror".Maher Younis was released from Beersheba prison in...

By AFPGunmen attacked a prison in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez on Sunday, leaving 14 people dead and allowing 24 inmates to escape, the Chihuahua state prosecutors' office said.An unknown number of gunmen aboard armored vehicles took pa...

By AFPIslamic State group militants in northern Syria launched a failed attack targeting a prison holding fellow jihadists in a clash that killed six Kurdish fighters, local authorities and a war monitor said.The Kurdish fighters were killed in the a...

The deaths of black and mixed-race people in UK prisons are among the most violent and prevalent.INQUEST’s new report,“Deaths of racialized people in prison 2015-2022: Challenging racism and discrimination”,makes a powerful intervention as it uncover...

Death, rape, and torture by using music have been reported at the Oklahoma County Detention Center in the United States, amid calls by human rights and justice defenders to stop sending inmates to this troubled detention center.Inmate John Basco, 48,...

Montrell Carmouche praises Mexico's white beaches and coral reefs, selling it by telephone as a holiday destination while trying not to reveal that he has never been there -- or that he is, in fact, an inmate imprisoned in the United States.His story...