Ross Island, which lies in the Bay of Bengal off the Indian Ocean, was once home to hundreds of Indian convicts as part of a British penal colony, despite measuring less than 0.2 sq miles.

Former President Rodrigo Duterte was accused of ordering the killings of three suspected Chinese drug lords inside the Davao ...

Four prisoners are dead after a riot at a maximum security penal colony in Russia’s Volgograd region escalated into hostages being taken and a stand off with state security services. The ...

ISIS fanatic inmates who took took control of a Russian penal colony, slashing a guard's throat and forcing maimed hostages to beg Putin for help, have now been 'liquidated' by snipers, according ...

Russian special forces said the alleged hostage takers were all “eliminated” in an operation that saw some hostages freed, at the penal colony in the town of Surovikino. The National Guard of ...

Reports said the attackers had bought knives inside the penal colony in exchange for bribes. Prison officer Roman Ponomarev was in an “extremely serious condition”. Devyatov was also wounded ...