During Florida’s blistering summer months, Morin C.* says the heat in his prison cell becomes so sticky and oppressive, he sometimes showers seven times a day just to cope. The 41-year-old is ...

This article by Sevinc Vagifgizi, Nargiz Absalamova, and Elnara Gasimova first appeared in Abzas Media on July 17, 2025. An edited version is being republished on Global Voices under a content ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attorney Marc Agnifilo gave rare insight into the rap mogul’s life in federal prison. The New York-based lawyer, who oversaw Combs’ sex-trafficking case in Manhattan federal court ...

The female inmates serving time at the minimum-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, are each provided the typical allotment of two rolls of toilet paper per week. Some of them take special ...

I have spent decades in and out of this country’s prisons. But I had never seen them as bad as they were when I became prisons minister, almost a year ago. The sad truth is that, on taking office, we ...

Prisons are jammed at more than 50% above capacity. Figures presented to parliament’s correctional services portfolio committee on Tuesday show that SA prisons held 163,179 inmates in the first ...