A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America Once a leper colony the island was later transformed into a prison and then under UN mandate made ...

Surrounded by a corrugated fence topped with barbed wire, Penal Colony No. 2 outside Pokrov some 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Moscow will be the anti-corruption campaigner's home for the next ...

Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony by a court in Russia in August US basketball player Brittney Griner has been sent to a Russian penal colony in a remote region south ...

As many were outraged over the sentence, even more people have expressed grave concern about Griner being transferred to the IK-2 penal colony in Mordovia to begin her sentence. The week Griner ...

The room is inaccessible - behind barbed wire and high walls. But that prison, penal colony number six in the Bryansk region, south-west of Moscow, is known to many people. Some former inmates and ...

He has since received three prison terms and spent months in isolation in Penal Colony No. 6 for alleged minor infractions. He has rejected all charges against him as politically motivated.

Australia was a British penal colony between 1788 and 1868 and over 160,000 convicts were 'transported' here. Learn about these child convicts, why they were transported, how they lived in the colony ...

returned to Russia and sent to a penal colony. That month, Masha was moved from the orphanage to her mother’s home after a government minister contacted the mother. The case, which shocked many ...

A 22-year-old Russian man considered a political prisoner by activists has died in a penal colony in Belarus, human rights group Viasna said Friday. The rights group said it confirmed the death of ...

Vincent, Mark 2019. US AND THEM: Criminality and prisoner hierarchies in the early Gulag Press, 1923–1930. Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 32, Issue. 2, p. 272. A comprehensive evaluation of the Russian ...

Vladimir Pereverzin was imprisoned for seven years in some of Russia's most notorious jails and penal colonies on fabricated charges of embezzlement and fraud. Pereverzin tells Business Insider ...

Jailed Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has confirmed his arrival in a Siberian penal colony in tweets referring to himself as a "Santa Claus." His whereabouts were unknown for 20 days.