In the early 1800s, Richard Riker, a descendant of the family who owned Rikers Island, participated in a kidnapping ring for decades that sent African Americans into slavery. Riker used his power as a ...

“Nell” is a desperate-sounding revamping of Blind Lemon Jefferson's 1920s “Prison Cell Blues ... guests on one of these 11 bluesy rock tracks Song characters made of wood reach back ...

Sudanese citizens celebrate in Port Sudan after the Sudanese army deepened its control over the capital, Khartoum, on March 27, 2025 [Ibrahim Mohammed Ishak/Reuters] Sudan’s civil war could ...

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...

In its latest report, even the Lippman Commission admits the Rikers Island prison complex can’t close by 2027, but the reality-denying City Council refuses to admit it. The first of the ...

Military experts say China will start with an ever-tightening squeeze on Taiwan using naval blockades around the island - something very similar to the war drills Beijing has been conducting for ...

By then, there were already more than 1,500 political prisoners in Russia for opposing the war. Many of them are young people ... a military court has sentenced him to 16 years in prison. The sentence ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly floated sending American prisoners to serve prison sentences outside the country — this time threatening the people charged with vandalizing Teslas.

Love Island star Jack Fincham has won an appeal against a six-week prison sentence and walked free from court. Fincham, who won the 2018 series of the ITV2 show with Dani Dyer, pleaded guilty at ...

who guarded Confederate prisoners at the Rock Island prison during the Civil War, to the big screen. Filmmaker Joy Shannon, 67, described the story of the Union soldiers, many who were former ...

A civil war has engulfed the country for two years, but some of the fiercest clashes have taken place in the sprawling city on the Nile, where the Sudanese military is battling the Rapid Support ...