No lawyer in the world has a client list like Jared Genser. A former partner at DLA Piper, the human rights lawyer spoke with The Litigation Daily about his work, including his recent partnership with ...

France has some of the worst prison overcrowding in Europe, and staff unions have complained the state is neglecting normal ...

Aspects of daily life behind bars include cells so crowded that detainees cannot move without climbing over one another, and inmates sleeping on thin mattresses on the floor for weeks or months.

A British couple detained in Iran for seven months on espionage charges have been moved to separate prisons in and near Tehran, heightening fears for their welfare, their son told AFP on Monday.

The stern appearance of Wandsworth prison is enough to make grown people shudder. Based in leafy south-west London, the Victorian-era facility - with its gault brick walls and a dark intimidating ...

Two detainees at a French jail sawed through the bars of their cell and escaped using bed sheets overnight, a prosecutor said today, in the second ...