Azat Miftakhov, a mathematician and self-described anarchist, has alleged that he was subjected to torture, beatings and ...

Deep in the Russian tundra sits Black Dolphin, a maximum-security prison designed to permanently isolate the country’s most violent offenders. Housing around 700 inmates responsible for an estimated 3 ...

Some 20,000 Ukrainian civilians are in Russian prisons and rights activists say more than 2,000 are female. Some of the women who have managed to get out jail are now speaking out about what they ...

MOSCOW — Snipers from Russia's National Guard on Friday killed four inmates who had stabbed four prison guards to death and briefly held others as hostages while declaring allegiance to the Islamic ...

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 ...