Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Qarchak prison has been sanctioned by the US on the basis of extrajudicial killings, torture and other violations of human rights ...

After an Israeli airstrike damaged Iran’s infamous Evin prison, authorities moved dozens of female inmates to Qarchak, a detention center described by prisoners and rights groups as one of the worst ...

In roughly nine years since he first came to Louisiana State Penitentiary, Patrick Jones has picked corn, okra, cabbage and beans by hand. He’s cut grass. He’s baled hay. He’s made sandbags and ...

Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand under the watchful eyes of armed guards on horseback. He ...

A federal judge ruled Friday that officials at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola must again take special precautions to protect inmates who work in the prison's fields during high ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorneys representing Angola inmates assigned to prison farm work are once again asking a federal judge to order heat protections before the upcoming summer. The ...