SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s impeached conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from prison on Saturday, a day after a Seoul court canceled his arrest to allow him to stand ...

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One of Australia's largest jails has been transferred from a scandal-ridden private operator to public hands where more than 400 well-paid public sectors jobs are expected to be secured under ...

Within this subset there have been some stellar prison films. Everynight, Everynight (1994) still packs a punch, and the opening and closing sections of Chopper (2000), set in prison, are the most ...

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has been sentenced to one year in prison for defying the rulings of the top international official overseeing peace in the Balkan country. The court in the ...

Before the early 1990s, people who were sentenced to 10 years in prison might be released after serving roughly half that long. That’s because of policies that allowed incarcerated individuals ...

South Korea’s president is fighting to stay in office and out of prison after martial law fiasco. Here’s what happens next By Mike Valerio , Gawon Bae and Yoonjung Seo , CNN ...

"He told me that if I tried to escape, he would kill me." Pascaline, 22, recalls the words of her rapist at a prison in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in the early ...

According to the Telegraph, external, Mike Amesbury - the suspended Labour MP who punched a man in the street - will receive full pay while serving his ten-week prison sentence. The report says he ...