SEOUL -- In Camp No. 14, the North Korean political prison where Shin Dong-hyuk was born and where he says he watched the hanging of his mother, inmates never saw a picture of Kim Jong Il. "I had no ...

SAYDNAYA, Syria (AP) — Behind the coils of razor wire and concrete walls, glimpses of the horror emerge from the warren of dank, airless corridors of what has been dubbed “The Slaughterhouse.” A ...

For a few days in 1971, some dudes at a Northern California college pulled some zany stunts in a basement and we’re still talking about it. No, this had nothing to do with playing Jefferson Airplane ...

The Assad legacy is one of horror with hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced or in exile. Perhaps nothing illustrates the depths of the depravity more than the archipelago of prisons and ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The documentary The Alabama Solution, which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, uses video captured inside Alabama’s prisons to show violence, forced ...

SPAC, Albania (AP) — Buried in the mountains of northern Albania are crumbling buildings and an old copper mine where political prisoners were once forced to work to exhaustion and even death. The ...

Extreme incidents of violence inside HMP Belmarsh where it's been claimed 'jihad networking' was rife, have included attacks with boiling water, tins used as knives and gang-related beatings. The jail ...

In Syria, people have known that one wrong step could land them in trouble with the government. For the first time in more than half a century, Syrians are experiencing life without that shadow. In ...