Supreme Court standards prohibit officer use of force only if it is "malicious and sadistic." Courts rarely rule that extreme ...

Nabil Hawara was 40 years old when he was finally released from Syria's infamous desert prisons after spending half his life ...

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release amid fears for her health after four years in a ...

The attack on Eric Van Tine in a cell shared with two other men raises questions about how San Diego County jails house the ...

Staff at a Surrey prison failed to get medical attention for a prisoner who was reportedly found "naked on all fours, and ...

The museum across the yard also digs into the misogyny that led to so many women being tried as witches, and the switch from ...

Robert Maudsley, 71, is the UK's longest-serving prisoner and has spent 46 years in solitary confinement - 51 Christmases ...

Quadruple killer Robert Maudsley is feared so dangerous he has been given his own special cell and kept apart from other ...

Robert Maudsley's purpose-built, super-secure cell has been compared to the one housing Dr Hannibal Lecter in the film The ...

Maudsley was locked in a glass cell at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire in 1983, after he killed child abuser John Farrell ...

A 43-year-old inmate is dead following an apparent suicide at Nash Correctional Institute on Saturday morning, officials said ...