With little hope around them, prisoners in a high-security correction facility have found the light at the end of the tunnel with DANCE.

Gayton McKenzie is filled with joy and pride after inmates completed major repairs to the home of a GBV victim in the area

A man who plowed his sports utility vehicle into a Christmas parade killing six people, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.

The Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services has asked the Parliament to intervene on prison conditions in Mzansi.

Man who contracted HIV and was forcibly tattooed while in jail was awarded R2-million in damages for unjustly spending two years in prison.

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An engineer and his wife were sentenced to long prison terms for plotting to SELL submarine secrets to a foreign country.

The UN has called on Egypt to immediately release Alaa Abdel Fattah, a jailed dissident on hunger strike, saying his life was at risk.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has deplored the fate of thousands of children living in “a giant open air prison” at Syria’s Al-Hol camp.

The number of the prison population continues to increase while capacity for such perpetrators is insufficient.

Myanmar ex-leader and a Nobel laureate Suu Kyi has been moved from house arrest to solitary confinement in a prison, source said Thursday

Sean Davison who was convicted of premeditated murders of three people he helped to die, was released Monday after 3 year euthanasia sentence

‘How to murder your husband’ writer Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, was sentenced to life in prison for a real murder of her husband, judge said

Former presidential candidate Abdelmoneim Aboul Fotouh was sentenced 15 years in prison for spreading false news and incitement against state

After fleeing his country, Portuguese banker Joao Rendeiro was arrested in SA and kept in custody until his death.

11 suspects sentenced to jail for maintaining an underworld prison with a torture chamber inside shipping containers, Dutch court Wednesday.

Vicky White had just retired as a prison official when she fled with a 38-year-old man awaiting trial on a capital murder case

A pregnant soldier and other 13 Ukrainians have been freed in prisoner exchange with Russia forces, Ukraine said on Saturday

After reviewing COVID-19 risk-adjusted strategies, the DCS decided to make a decision on prison visits for those who qualify.

South Africans have called for a lesser or suspended sentence after Sibongile Mani was sentenced to 5 years direct imprisonment.

R Kelly was allegedly asked by a female fan to sing for her after she found out he is in the same prison as her dad.

The hefty prison sentences were meted out by the Oudtshoorn Regional Court for sexual-related crimes this past month.

“It is alleged that on 28 February 2022, the accused and his 68-year-old grandmother had a heated argument.”

Two Iranian ex-prisoners have opened a successful “jail restaurant” to help raise funds to free convicts languishing behind bars for unpaid debts.

At least 70 people were killed in an air strike on a prison as Yemen’s long-running conflict suffered a dramatic escalation Friday that drew condemnation from UN chief Antonio Guterres.