Most people think American prisons are the worst in the world, but they don’t come close to Russia’s. Behind the barbed wire and isolation of Russia’s penal colonies lies a system built on fear, ...

Eight men who were handed life sentences by Russian judges over an attack on a bridge linking the Moscow-annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea to Russia issued a joint appeal to be freed on Tuesday, ...

Russia has been holding thousands of Ukrainian civilians behind bars for years, in breach of international humanitarian law. Families have been fighting for their loved ones to be released, some for ...

A better cell, a hospital stay or early release -- everything can be bought in Russian jails, as corruption revelations have shown. Yelena Fedoseyeva, a former inmate at Prison Camp No. 7 near the ...

WASHINGTON – Wearing his only well-fitted suit, Harold Jezler pushed through a crowd of government officials, journalists and executives inside a ballroom blocks from the White House. The ...