THE Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said an economic zone (ecozone) it plans to establish at a penal colony in Palawan is expected to be operational by the time President Ferdinand R. Marcos ...

involved in drug-related offenses to Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm (SPPF) in Occidental Mindoro, home to the country's SuperMax facility. This move, Catapang said, aims to centralize the ...

Bukele just offered El Salvador’s mega-prison to house U.S. deportees and prisoners—because mass incarceration outsourcing is ...

Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been sentenced to years in a Russian penal colony. Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev were found guilty by a Russian ...

Navalny, who died suddenly aged 47 in an Arctic penal colony in February last year, was himself convicted of extremism and other charges, all of which he said were trumped up by the authorities to ...

LONDON - Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced to years in a penal colony.

The place was once known for being a penal settlement ... adding that it was one of the harshest forms of punishment in the colony. “Convicts loathed it. It was deemed the most difficult ...

Navalny, who died suddenly in an Arctic penal colony in February last year, was himself convicted of extremism and other charges, all of which he denied. His wife Yulia Navalnaya has described the ...

A Russian court said the lawyers for Aleksei Navalny, the country’s top opposition figure before his death in a penal colony last year, were guilty of involvement in an extremist group.

Alexei Liptser was jailed for five years in a penal colony and Vadim Kobzev was given five-and-a-half years. Kobzev's own lawyer, Andrei Grivtsov, said the evidence against them amounted to ...