THE global female prison population is growing at a faster rate than that of men. While women still represent a smaller percentage of the total prison population in most countries, at the global ...

Here are the US citizens are still in custody in Russia after last year’s massive prisoner swap and subsequent releases ...

Russia has freed Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher and former employee of the US Embassy in Moscow, who had been serving ...

Following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin allegedly sent out an order to its prison system to follow one key objective against POWs ...

The release is part of a swap with the Kremlin that freed an American schoolteacher being held in a Russian prison.

Her husband, Vlad, was alive, said the voice on the phone, and was being held in a prison inside Russia. The stranger had found her name and number on a tiny scrap of paper, smuggled out of Vlad ...