Though the 2023 riot serves as the narrative basis for Prison Cell 211, many of the characters and themes are pulled from a ...

Allies say his time in a 15-square-meter (160-square-foot)cell on the third floor of the Federal Police headquarters in Curitiba imbued the leftist politician with a renewed sense of social justice.

Last month, Netflix debuted “Prison Cell 211," an action-thriller series based on the novel by author Francisco Pérez Gandul. But this wasn’t the first time the book had been adapted. Back in ...

The night he was taken from the prison in Omsk, 2,700 kilometers (1,600 miles) away from Moscow, ahead of the prisoner swap, Kara-Murza said prison guards had burst into his cell at 3 a.m. telling ...

From June 5 to 14, Tolokonnikova, 35, will be spending her days in a corrugated-steel replica of a decrepit Russian prison cell, installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles.

DAMASCUS, Syria — Cockroaches crawled out of the walls near a dirty, stained sink in the Syrian prison cell where an ex-prisoner told NBC News that American journalist Austin Tice was once held.

An Alabama inmate died after being “baked” to death in a sweltering prison cell described as “hotter than three hells,” his family alleged in a federal wrongful death lawsuit. Thomas Lee ...

For decades, they have walked along the prison’s high walls, sunbathed on the metal roof and skittered between cells crowded with 10 men each. To prison officials, they were a peculiarity of ...