A video showed a prisoner cooking inside his cell, sparking concern about safety, oversight, and conditions in South African ...

ActionSA has introduced a bill in the South African Parliament proposing mandatory minimum prison sentences for corruption and stricter reporting requirements for financial crimes.

Parliament's Ad Hoc Committee rejected Thabo Bester's late submission, ultimately deciding against allowing the convicted murderer to testify, would not be justifiable.

The reign of “Terror” came to an end in Bloemfontein on Saturday, as COPE founder and ex-defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota was ...

A former deep-sea treasure hunter who made one of the greatest shipwreck discoveries in American history and spent the past ...

Just 10 kilometers off the coast of Cape Town sits Robben Island, the infamous prison where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years during South Africa’s apartheid era. For centuries the island served as a ...

The family detail in letters what they describe as neglectful medical care, inedible food and a disregard for their religious ...

The car bombing carried out by PKK terrorists at a busy bus stop in Ankara’s Kızılay district in 2016 killed 36 people, wounded hundreds and seared ...

Robert Francis is one of 210 people given a second chance after the state's highest court ruled that those under 21 can’t be ...

El Salvador's Bukele proposes life prison sentences in nation that has imprisoned 1% of population - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and his party are pushing forward a constitutional reform that ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and his party pushed through a constitutional reform that will permit life sentences in ...

An inmate died at the United States Penitentiary Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, earlier this week.