A Russian judge sentenced Olga Jezler to 10 years in prison on drug charges. Hostage advocacy groups say the charges are ...

Russia’s prison population has fallen to 282,000 over the past four and a half years, the director of the Federal ...

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GRANBURY, Texas — The world waits with anxiety to see what Russia’s next move will be. But few families feel the fear as deeply as Joey and Paula Reed. The Granbury couple’s son, Trevor, a 30-year-old ...

Some 20,000 Ukrainian civilians are in Russian prisons and rights activists say more than 2,000 are female. Some of the women who have managed to get out jail are now speaking out about what they ...

Russia has been holding thousands of Ukrainian civilians behind bars for years, in breach of international humanitarian law. Families have been fighting for their loved ones to be released, some for ...

Former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman, who serves a prison sentence for assaulting a Russian police officer in 2022, attends a hearing of a court that considers new charges alleging he attacked prison ...

U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted Thursday in Russia of drug possession and sentenced to nine years in prison following a politically charged trial that came amid soaring tensions ...

A better cell, a hospital stay or early release -- everything can be bought in Russian jails, as corruption revelations have shown. Yelena Fedoseyeva, a former inmate at Prison Camp No. 7 near the ...

MOSCOW, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman was convicted by a Russian court on Wednesday of a new assault on prison staff and sentenced to two more years in prison, where he now faces ...