Tag: Prison

Chris Hani's killer Janusz Walus has been stabbed in prison amid his imminent release on parole.

A fire at Iran's Evin prison late on Saturday killed four detainees and injured 61, state media reported, as anti-government ...

Paying an admission of guilt fine for not wearing a mask in public, will result in the offender getting a ...

Uganda has recorded a 10% increase in the number of people in jail since March, a prison official told Reuters ...

The South African Sentence and Awaiting Trial Prisoners Organisation, SASAPO, has confirmed that prisoners are set to embark on a ...

A prison riot in Colombia’s capital Bogota late on Saturday left 23 prisoners dead and 83 injured, the justice minister ...

Sixteen inmates were killed and five more were wounded in a fight that broke out in a prison in the ...

A group of 15 troublesome boys in Pretoria have had a first-hand experience of what it is like to be ...

Two videos of prisoners and warders engaged in illicit behaviour at Durban's Westville Prison have emerged. The cell phone footage ...

Donald Trump's one-time personal lawyer Michael Cohen entered federal prison to serve a three-year sentence Monday for a crime he ...

Sudan's deposed president Omar al-Bashir was moved to Kobar prison in the capital Khartoum late on Tuesday, two family sources ...

Award-winning Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid was released on Monday after spending nearly six years in prison following his arrest ...

The Department of Correctional Services has been conducting surprise inspections at prisons across the country, as part of Operation Vala.

A Brazilian supreme court judge on Wednesday issued an order that could see former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva soon ...

A former FBI agent who leaked internal documents showing how the agency used racial profiling in counter-terror investigations was sentenced ...

The Deputy Minister of Correctional Services says rehabilitation programs in prisons can reduce gangsterism in jails nationwide.

Murderer Christopher Panayiotou and his two accomplices, Sinethemba Nenembe and Zolani Sibeko, have been refused leave to appeal their convictions ...

Former Western Cape Police Commissioner, Arno Lamoer, has gone back to prison after spending the weekend with his family.

After more than 52 hours of fraught twists and turns, Brazil's former president Lula was finally put behind bars over ...

A 39-year-old prisoner has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for raping a 24-year-old inmate in Empangeni in the ...