Following Bashar al-Assad’s downfall, WSJ travels to an abandoned prison in Damascus while families across Syria desperately search for missing relatives, and in the process makes a grim discovery.
Prison is a realm of extreme unknowns. A walk to the mess hall can erupt in a 10-man brawl. A sunny morning in the yard can escalate into gas canisters being fired from the watchtower. This past July, ...
Inside, crews for days tried to punch through concrete walls, spurred by suspicions of the existence of cells beneath the prison where inmates might still be trapped. But no hidden cells have been ...
But when rebels broke inside the prison at the weekend, they found dozens of men and women, often deprived of natural light, trapped inside cramped cells. So far, initial investigations of the ...
Associate warden Richard Nelson helped create the San Quentin Museum in 1993 while working at the prison. Located inside of San Quentin's gates, the museum showcases exhibits spanning from the ...
One man was stabbed in the back and another was stabbed in the head inside a prison in Philly on Friday evening, according to a spokesperson with the Philadelphia Police Department. The stabbing ...