Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman discussed their film with The Hollywood Reporter at the recent SCAD Savannah Film ...

Before he became a mega-star as Aragorn in "The Lord of the Rings," a young Viggo Mortensen survived as a prisoner in a ...

In an award-winning investigation conducted jointly with OCCRP, Schemes determined the identity of a doctor whose conduct stood out in the memories of inmates who said they suffered near-constant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WATERBURY, Connecticut — The neighbors next door to a “house of horrors” here described how their daughter had a chance encounter with an emaciated man who police said was subjected to decades of ...

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 ...

WALTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Walton County couple will spend the rest of their lives in prison after they were convicted for adopting two young boys, then sexually abusing them. Deputies arrested William ...

In the first days, Rebiya Kadeer could not get enough of her children. She woke them up to talk to them and hugged them to make up for lost time. After spending 51/2 years in Chinese jails for ...