Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates ...

More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according ...

I’M OFTEN ASKED WHY AFRICA MATTERS. It’s an understandable question in a world of real responsibilities, real demands, and ...

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The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

U.S. President Donald Trump has followed through on his promise to punish South Africa by signing an executive order stopping ...

In February 2023, Salvadoran authorities launched what they claim to be "Latin America's biggest prison." The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a 57-acre (23-hectare) "mega-prison", is located 70 ...

Corrections Corporation of America, now CoreCivic, in 2008 announced it was going to build Tennessee's largest ... years at South Central Correctional Facility, a CoreCivic operated prison in ...

In a high-profile crackdown on a coup plot, two key associates of Benin’s President Patrice Talon have been sentenced to 20 years in prison ... stands as one of South Africa's most enduring ...

A former Top 10 student at student became a high-achieving matriculant while behind bars. The inmate got his act together for ...

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

It comes as the government says it has successfully cracked-down on prison drug trafficking ... male and Indigenous prisoners. With the largest offence type increases were theft and related ...