Two Ukrainian prisoners of war have each been sentenced to 18 years in a strict-regime penal colony by the Southern District ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Belarus opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova stands behind bars in a defendants' cage in a court in Minsk, Belarus, on Aug ...

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 ...

The guerrilla war is over in Colombia and that's opening up some formerly off-limits places for tourism, including an island that formerly housed... Colombian Former Penal Colony Now Taking Tourists ...

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 ...

Belarusian prisons are thought to hold over 1,100 political prisoners, including 150 women, under harsh conditions. Former inmates describe freezing cells, rotten quality, and forced labor, likening ...

Sakharov prize winner was sentenced to eight years in a penal colony in Belarus in 2021 ...

WARSAW, April 16 (Reuters) - A court in Russian‑controlled Luhansk sentenced a Polish citizen to 13 years in a maximum-security penal colony for participating in armed conflict on the side of Ukraine, ...