Imprisoned since 2002 on murder charges and sentenced to five life sentences plus an additional 40 years for his role in the ...

Vaclav Havel’s Letters to Olga turned his confinement into a philosophical diary. Martin Luther King Jr., scribbling on scraps of newspaper in Birmingham Jail, fashioned a manifesto for civil rights.

What are the odds that a dreadful maximum-security prison in Alcatraz and a notorious underground vault in Edinburgh would ...

The party has warned the two senior members against making ‘opportunistic’ remarks that undermine its unity, after both ...

Dolly Parton's "Jolene" has been heard in bars and clubs around the world, and it also has been heard in the prison that held Nelson Mandela.

Jewish solidarity from apartheid to today’s flood relief in Eastern CapeIsrael partners with traditional leaders to aid ...

It’s never occurred to me to feel nostalgic or grateful for Tommy Robinson’s English Defence League. The EDL was ...

On his first diplomatic visit to India, Nelson Mandela was treated as a kindred spirit and likened to Gandhi, a gesture he ...

If we unpack stubbornness as steadfastness, unwillingness to yield in the quest for freedom, we can understand better what Mandela did in order to prepare himself to advance the Struggle while ...

Marwan Barghouti is the most senior Palestinian leader in jail – and the most popular. He is often described in local press ...

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin One has to admire the courage—or perhaps the foolhardiness—of any author aiming to research the ...

An inmate at Rikers Island died in his prison cell Saturday morning – marking the ninth reported prisoner death at the ...