To the revolutionary governments of France, America was relevant chiefly as a debtor. In American politics ... and served the next five years in prison, followed by two more in exile.

These include the Debtor (Lee Hee-jun), who hires a hitman to kill his father ... Director Lee reflects on his signature prison themes The director said he read the original webtoon twice but avoided ...

The criminalisation of poverty is deeply embedded in the annals of English law, with the Poor Laws and the Vagrancy Act of 1824 being two laws that spring to mind. Thousands of people are sent to ...

The Dorrits are a family whose life revolves around the Marshalsea, a debtor's prison. Amy Dorrit's kind nature brings the family into contact with a wide swath of English society, from the poorest to ...

An intriguing tale of a long-ago Dublin debtor's prison... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to The Four Courts Marshalsea and the Battle of the Ball Court, by Brian Crowley above.

The Vancouver man accused of murdering eight people by ploughing a vehicle into a crowded street celebration on Saturday ...

Heemal Vaid, an Indian-origin drug trafficker, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for orchestrating the import and distribution of over 4 million pounds worth of cocaine and heroin.

I do not believe incarceration should be a picnic. Although there are some people in our state's prison system who shouldn't be there, I'm convinced that the vast majority of them do belong there.

A former Russian government minister who violated British sanctions by receiving significant financial support from family members has been sentenced to more than three years in prison.

Both her documentary and Farhadi’s narrative feature were inspired by a real-life incident in 2011 in which a man in Iran on furlough from a debtors’ prison found a bag of gold coins and ...

A judge approved Harvey Weinstein’s request to transfer from Rikers Island to Bellevue Hospital for essential medical care during his New York trial. His attorney criticized Rikers’ conditions.