Peru is one of the countries with an overcrowding of nationwide prisons, a fact that aggravates the overcrowding of prisoners, who have to seek meet their basic needs in the midst of this environment.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was taken from prison to a hospital on Thursday, three days after ...

Prison is not meant to be easy, but Joran van der Sloot's time behind bars has just gotten even worse. Van Der Sloot pleaded guilty to killing Stephany Flores in 2012 after strangling her in a ...

Former Peruvian strongman Vladimiro Montesinos was sentenced to 19 years in prison Wednesday for his involvement in a 1992 massacre under then-President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) who has been ...

Peruvian officials announced Monday that a military ... Certainly, she's still going to be in prison, that we know. We don't know any time schedule. "We don't even know for certain if the civilian ...

Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch citizen who gained international infamy for admitting to the long-unsolved 2005 murder of 18-year-old American Natalee Holloway, was injured last week during a brawl ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was taken from prison to a hospital on Thursday, three days after he began a hunger strike in protest of his ongoing rebellion trial.