Staff were being warned of notes and messages being passed between increasingly restless inmates of a planned protest in the prison chapel. The tip-offs were largely ignored and what followed sparked ...

The riots and subsequent rooftop protest ended on April 25 when the final five prisoners were removed from the roof, making it the longest prison riot in British history. 13:07, 26 MAR 2025 ...

The Strangeways Riot remains Britain’s longest and bloodiest prison riot, and was the catalyst for sweeping prison reform. Article continues below In the months before, the prison population had ...

The Armenian Justice Ministry’s Penitentiary Service said on Thursday that it has used force to put down a riot in the country’s largest prison. The agency said that the violence broke out after ...

President Donald Trump has pardoned a Virginia man whose sentence already was commuted for his convictions stemming from the ...

The arrest of an opposition presidential candidate last month has triggered the largest anti-government protests Turkey has seen in more than a decade, uniting demonstrators from different walks of ...

Sara Snell, the new chief inspector of prisons in Scotland, worked in the prison service in England during the infamous riot. In an exclusive interview with The Herald just weeks after taking up ...

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is a member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot. She is currently serving a two year prison sentence for ‘hooliganism on the grounds of religious hatred’ after she and her band ...