Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin, died while serving a 19-year jail term in a penal colony around 40 ...

The two members of the band Pussy Riot who remain behind bars lost an appeal to serve out the length of their two-year sentences at a Moscow pre-trial detention center on Monday. The alternative, ...

An Alabama native who has been held in Russia for the past four years is now serving his prison sentence at a penal colony hundreds of miles from Moscow. David Barnes, 67, was sentenced in 2024 to 21 ...

TALLINN, Estonia — Antanina Kanavalava says her four years in a Belarusian penal colony as a political prisoner were filled with fear and anguish that still haunt her. She nearly lost parental rights ...

Former RFE/RL journalist Nika Novak, who was sentenced to prison last year by a Russian court for carrying out her professional duties, has disappeared from a Siberian correctional colony, her lawyer ...

The Italian region of Tuscany includes the island of Gorgona, home to Europe’s last prison colony. Instead of focusing on punishment, the approach here emphasizes rehabilitation, even paying inmates ...

Machines do so many dirty jobs that human beings don't want to even think about, much less carry out themselves. Machines are still used for the executions of prisoners, and the ongoing moral dilemma ...