From high-security facilities to infamous death row prisons, these are the 25 Most Dangerous Prisons in the World. Brace yourself for a tour of some of the most feared and brutal correctional ...

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Coverage of Syria’s prisons overlooks their decades-long use as key destinations for extraordinary rendition, where terror suspects were sent for brutal ...

A prison, by definition, is meant to be a place of correction, a facility where lawbreakers are held as punishment and theoretically rehabilitated. But the prisons we’re about to explore? They’re ...

Marie Antoinette, last Queen of France, is escorted from the Concierge prison in Paris on her way to the guillotine. The famous French prison is now a national ...

The office of France’s counterterrorism prosecutor said it would begin an investigation into the violence. The justice minister blamed drug traffickers. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg See more of our coverage ...

Tens of thousands of Syrians were thrown into Sednaya during the Assad regime. The New York Times created a 3-D model of the prison. By Christina Goldbaum, Charlie Smart, Helmuth Rosales, Anjali ...

HASAKAH, Syria—In a wing of the notorious Al Sina prison in northeastern Syria, where some of the world’s most dangerous inmates are held, guards wearing balaclavas stood along a corridor lined with ...

LONDON — It’s been a strange sort of prison break: no daring escapes, no Hollywood getaways — just inmates quietly released, by mistake, onto the streets of Britain. Subscribe to read this story ...

Darrell Fair was in his cell at Stateville Correctional Center during a heat wave last June when he heard shouts for help. Someone in a cell nearby was in medical distress. There was no air ...