Two former fighters from the Russian private military company Wagner have spoken of their horrific experiences on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine and how anyone who hesitated was immediately shot by their own commanders, CNN reports. The Wagner Group is an unofficial armed group...
Back in the fall of 2020, it became known that patients were being tortured in the Rostov prison hospital. But the case was opened only a year later. By November last year, more than 60 prisoners had testified. BBC reports why the investigation was silent and how people lose their health in…
In July, the administration of US President Joe Biden released a Moroccan who had been held at Guantanamo for nearly two decades without being charged with a crime. But as it turned out, there are many such prisoners there, and not all will soon be free. Business…
The mother of a Russian arms dealer, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence in the United States and inspired the filmmakers with Nicolas Cage in the title role, asked the leaders of the United States and Russia to negotiate the release of her son, writes Yahoo. Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are expected to discuss ...
A former American marine was jailed on charges of assaulting police officers, writes Voice of America. Leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee introduced a resolution demanding that Russia release former US Marine Trevor Reed, imprisoned in that country.…
California authorities are forced to release prisoners serving sentences for minor crimes, writes Voice of America. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says he's ready for the city to shut down again. One of the problems in California right now is the outbreak of COVID-19 in prisons. The authorities are forced to go...
When the first cases of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus surfaced in Ohio prisons, the director in charge realized that she was faced with an uncontrollable situation, writes Reuters. “We haven't always been able to pinpoint where all the cases came from,” said Annette Chambers-Smith, director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.…
In South Carolina, 10 prisoners were mistakenly released early over the course of two years due to errors in the calculation of the terms of their sentences. This statement was made by the state Department of Corrections. According to officials, only six were returned to prison.…
Police are looking for two prisoners from a penal colony in Louisville, Kentucky who escaped late Saturday night, hiding in a trash can. Around 22 pm Saturday, Justin Stumler and Jeremy Hunt escaped from custody, hiding “in food dumpsters ...
The 44th US President Barack Obama pardoned 22 more convicts serving sentences in federal prisons on November 79. In total, during his presidency, he has pardoned more than a thousand people, Time reports. 342 of them were sentenced to life imprisonment. Only…