She focuses on three women: Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, who became Joséphine Bonaparte; Jeanne Françoise Julie ... It was an adaptation of the punitive prison chemise: Marie-Antoinette’s ...

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1916: Mexican General Francisco “Pancho” Villa invades US. On the same day, Germany declares war on Portugal. 1918: The Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party. 1930: Birth of jazz ...

Recently, we featured stories from formerly incarcerated people who shared the things about prison that most people don't realize. The responses were honest, sobering, and, at times, completely ...

This week government figures are likely to show the prison population back to where it was before the last early release scheme. But even though hundreds of prisoners have served only 40% of ...

An inmate died in a New York prison as guards at institutions across the state continue their strike, which is now in its second week. Jonathon Grant, 61, died over the weekend at one of the ...

An old prison in Laval, Que., will be turned into affordable housing, the Government of Canada has confirmed. In a press release Saturday, federal Minister of Public Services and Procurement and ...

Before the early 1990s, people who were sentenced to 10 years in prison might be released after serving roughly half that long. That’s because of policies that allowed incarcerated individuals ...

Five cash-in-transit robbers were sentenced to a combined 150 years in prison by the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Friday. Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Lloyd Ramovha stated ...

Brooks was allegedly beaten by corrections officers at a New York facility. Ten former prison guards were indicted for the killing of Robert Brooks, a prisoner incarcerated at the Marcy ...