This is well said, but one could add to it the fact that Victorian England was a powerful mixture of contrasts ... a Scottish ghillie and an Indian prison clerk. Tennyson, one of Lear’s closest ...

Dozens of prisons in England and Wales do not have fully working ... some of which dates back to the Victorian era. It highlights the extent of the crisis facing the government, even after it ...

New Zealand's first jail was a simple affair, just a symmetrical four-roomed log building, built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay ...

Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

These debtors’ prisons play right into the hands of those who make a profit by jailing Americans. This is no longer a government “of the people, by the people, for the people.” It is fast ...

Howard, a career thief who loved to use gelignite to blow the doors off safes, was involved in two of Victoria's most notorious prison breaks in the 1940s. He busted out of Beechworth and ...

England advanced to the semi-finals of Euro 2024 with a penalty shoot-out win over Switzerland as Jordan Pickford's save from Manuel Akanji's spot-kick proved decisive following a 1-1 draw ...

Syrian rebel forces have said they plan to close the notoriously harsh prisons run by ousted president Bashar al-Assad and hunt those involved in the killing or torture of detainees. Rebel leader ...

For more than five decades, the World Bank’s premier annual publication on debt, now titled the International Debt Report (IDR), along with the associated International Debt Statistics (IDS) database, ...

England and Wales prisons are grappling with a dramatic rise in drone incursions, as new figures reveal a tenfold increase in incidents since 2020. A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian ...