El Salvador's notorious maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center is harsh, dangerous and cruel. And that's just what its ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s top diplomat, defense minister and intelligence chief paid a sudden visit to Damascus on Thursday, days after Syria’s interim government reached a deal to integrate ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Credit: AP/Turkish Presidency Over four decades, al-Tatari was moved among prisons notorious for housing political inmates, including Palmyra prison and Sednaya. His imprisonment, described by ...

Over four decades, al-Tatari was moved among prisons notorious for housing political inmates, including Palmyra prison and Sednaya. His imprisonment, described by human rights groups as one of the ...

On Thursday, the Philadelphia-born rapper returned to Instagram to highlight the undesirable conditions of prison life. But he didn’t address the issues of overcrowding, violence, or inadequate ...

“We are carrying out repair and restoration works involving 10 buildings within the old prison complex. “Works started in October,” he told StarMetro. Among the oldest in the country after ...

The prison complex on Rikers Island in New York City, for example, literally removes incarcerated people from the city and places them out of sight on an island in the East River. For decades ...

(Kevin Rivoli/The Citizen via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — New York corrections officials implored striking prison guards on Thursday to take a last-chance deal to return to work without repercussions, over ...