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.

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 ...

An incarcerated former policeman on Wednesday corroborated the earlier testimonies of two inmates on the execution of three ...

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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 ...

BERLIN — After being released from a Russian penal colony this month in a high-profile prisoner swap ... been trying to keep up momentum and struggling to connect with Russians inside the country. But ...

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 Russia, ...