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The castle has crumbled: The life of Yitzhak Abergil

The Stanford Prison Experiment collection.

The Stanford Prison Experiment: What went wrong in the experiment that horrified the world?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Cigarettes hidden in sliced bread.

Cigarettes found smuggled inside loaf of bread at Carmel Prison

ISIS in Aleppo, Syria. 2017.

ISIS Prisons Museum: Documenting the horrors of Islamic State detention centers

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Liad Edri, accused of stabbing to death Yoel Lehanghel in Kiryat Shmona a few weeks ago arrives for a court hearing at the District Court in Nazareth, on November 21, 2022.

State Attorney's Office appeals sentencing in Yoel Lhanghal death case

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Police officers stand at the entrance of the district Judicial Complex in Islamabad, Pakistan November 28, 2023.

Islamabad High Court grants bail to Bushra Bibi after nine months of detention

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE

Elaha Mohammadi.

Iranian journalist Elaha Mohammadi sentenced to five years in prison amid conspiracy allegations

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Handcuffs on table.

Teacher at Baltimore Jewish school sentenced to 23 years in prison for sex crimes

By Luke Tress/JTA

An Iranian woman walks past an anti-Israel banner with a picture of Iranian missiles on a street in Tehran, Iran April 19, 2024.

Iran's president calls for investigation into case of death in custody

By REUTERS

Members of the Israel Prison Service stand guard next to Hamas terrorists caught during the October 7 massacre

Did guards commit sodomy against detainees at Sde Teiman?

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Protesters wave Israeli flags outside the Sde Teiman detention facility, after Israeli Military Police arrived at the site as part of an investigation into suspected abuse of a Palestinian detainee, near Beersheba in southern Israel, July 29, 2024.

Military investigators contacted released Sde Teiman prisoners regarding possible abuse

By ELIAV BREUER

Palestinians seen detained at the Sde Teiman Military Base in Israel's North

Officials detain soldiers at Sde Teiman after terrorist prisoner suffers abuse

By ELIAV BREUER , Avi Ashkenazi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entering the Knesset on June 24.

Netanyahu's only 'strategy' on Gaza is kicking the can, making things worse

By SHOSHANA TITA

A guard is seen at an observation tower along a wall of Gilboa Prison, from where six Palestinian prisoners escaped, on September 6.

PA recognizes 899 terrorists captured in Gaza as POWs, commits to pay pensions, PMW report shows

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Ari Kingsman, left, and Joshua Phillips both converted to Judaism while incarcerated.

Rabbi helps two incarcerated men convert to Judaism

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Israelis of Ethiopian descent take part in a protest

Fighting discrimination: Criminal records of disorderly conduct to be erased for Ethiopian Israelis

A young woman and member of the Lev Tahor community in the Canadian city of Chatham, Ontario, Nov. 29, 2013.

Last three defendants in Lev Tahor cult abduction case sentenced to over ten years in in prison

By Luke Tress/JTA

Gil Pereg.

Israeli killer who insisted he was a cat has died in Argentinian prison

By Inbar Naaman