During the Second World War, a PoW camp in southeast Australia nearby the township Cowra housed mainly Japanese and Italian ...

A soldier stand guard outside Compen prison in Montevideo on November 21, 2019. Photo by Pablo Porciuncula Brune/AFP via Getty Images. It’s past midnight on September 6, 1971. Across the prison, ...

Clashes between drug gangs on Thursday claimed at least 17 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals, officials in the ...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro launched Christmas celebrations on October 1 with fireworks from El Helicoide, a prison known for holding political opponents. The move, framed as bringing “joy,” ...

Inmates in Ecuador fought each other with guns and explosives in a riot that left 13 prisoners and a guard dead, police said. The mayhem was the latest in a series of bloodbaths to engulf gang-ridden, ...

Qarchak Prison, located southeast of Tehran, is Iran's largest women's detention center. Calls to close the facility have ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California’s largest ICE detention center, a former prison in the Mojave Desert, faces complaints of poor ...