Russia, which has a massive prison network inherited from Soviet labour camps, has one of the world's largest convict populations, though that number has been decreasing in the last 20 years. View on ...

U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted Thursday in Russia of drug possession and sentenced to nine years in prison following a politically charged trial that came amid soaring tensions ...

A former British soldier sentenced to 15 years in a maximum-security Russian prison colony has told the BBC he feels ...

Returning home from war usually brings immense relief. But for some soldiers, the darkest nightmares happen far from the battlefield. New testimonies are exposing a grim system operating quietly ...

FAIR LAWN, N.J. (CNN/CBS) -- An American-Israeli woman arrested at a Moscow airport with nine-and-a-half grams of marijuana has found herself at the center of a diplomatic standoff between Israel, ...

MOSCOW – The first Russian official charged in the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in prison after reporting a multimillion-dollar tax fraud, went on trial Thursday and pleaded not guilty ...

The number of prisoners in Russia has dropped by more than 180,000 over five years, in part driven by Moscow sending convicts to fight in its war in Ukraine, Russia's prison chief said on Thursday. In ...