Earlier this spring, violence broke out in the Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina, resulting in seven deaths and many injuries. Incarcerated leaders in the South Carolina prison system ...

Death and Taxes is reporting that inmates in 10 Georgia prisons — Baldwin, Hancock, Hays, Macon, Smith and Telfair State Prisons, to name a few — went on strike last Thursday to protest their ...

Corrections officers across seven of South Australia’s jails have voted to continue strike action that has plunged the ...

Four Palestine Action members are continuing hunger strikes in the UK, following a protest practice with a long history.

The protest came in support of a nationwide prisoner strike to call attention to the low inmate wages, decrepit facilities and harsh sentences that organizers say plague prison populations across the ...

The timing of Governor Hochul's announcement comes on the same day that ex-Mary Corrections Officer David Kingsley was sentenced for the murder of Brooks. Oneida County Court Judge Robert Bauer gave ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An American airstrike in April on a prison run by Yemen’s Houthi rebels that killed over 60 detained African migrants should be investigated as a possible war crime, ...

TUNIS (Reuters) -Jailed Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, 84, began a hunger strike, joining two prominent politicians who are protesting what they call “unjust imprisonment,” lawyers said ...

Four people held on remand for alleged damage on behalf of Palestine Action have ended their hunger strikes, while four ...

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas — A giant smiley face watches over the town from a bulbous water tower that can be seen from almost every vantage point. For nearly a decade, a private prison has accounted for ...