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The BBC has been given access to detention facilities on former United Arab Emirates military bases in Yemen, confirming long-standing…

Reports of militants from the Islamic State escaping from prisons in Syria are causing concern among Germany's security authorities. In…

Still, over time, I earned a reputation. “Joe’s straight,” guys would say, with some mix of mockery and begrudging respect. The prison…

Kyiv, Ukraine (AP) — “Everything will be all right.” Ukrainian soldier Serhii Hryhoriev said this so often during brief phone calls from…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than 200 Ukrainian POWs have died in prison since Russia’s full-scale invasion three years ago. Abuse inside…

The Evin House of Detention, in Tehran, is among the world’s most infamous prisons. It was built by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah…

PARIS (AP) — Anti-organized crime specialist investigators probing a wave of attacks on prisons and prison staff in France are looking at…

A wave of coordinated attacks have hit prisons across France, with unknown assailants torching cars outside several jails, leaving…

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits, Lena Coleman wishes she…