In its report on the state of prisons, the committee said congestion levels ranged between 200 and 300 percent, making ...

A joint parliamentary report has laid bare conditions in Zimbabwe's prisons, exposing chronic overcrowding, dilapidated ...

Parliament has raised alarm over Zimbabwe's correctional facilities, citing overcrowding, crumbling infrastructure, ...

Zimbabwe's correctional facilities are facing a severe overcrowding crisis, with some prisons operating at nearly three times ...

A DELEGATION from the Southern African Development Community has embarked on a week-long visit to Zimbabwe to explore the country's innovative approaches to correctional facility management. The tour, ...

Nigeria has emerged as the country with the highest number of facilities ranked among Africa’s ten worst prisons, according ...

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 ...

At least 17 people have been killed in a prison riot in Ecuador, the second deadly prison brawl to hit the country this week. Thursday’s fighting broke out in the coastal city of Esmeraldas near the ...

Prisoners across history have devised surprising, often cinematic, escapes from the confines that hold them. Whether it be a 17th-century Robin Hood staging a series of folklore-inspiring prison ...

Ghislaine Maxwell poked her head out from under a black umbrella on her way to "work" at Texas's "Club Fed" prison camp Saturday, before she returned at lunchtime carrying folders and headphones in a ...