Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nelia Checheta served the state for decades — first with the Soviet military in Turkmenistan and later in Ukraine's Emergency ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin, died while serving a 19-year jail term in a penal colony around 40 ...

An Alabama native who has been held in Russia for the past four years is now serving his prison sentence at a penal colony hundreds of miles from Moscow. David Barnes, 67, was sentenced in 2024 to 21 ...

Former RFE/RL journalist Nika Novak, who was sentenced to prison last year by a Russian court for carrying out her professional duties, has disappeared from a Siberian correctional colony, her lawyer ...

The Italian region of Tuscany includes the island of Gorgona, home to Europe’s last prison colony. Instead of focusing on punishment, the approach here emphasizes rehabilitation, even paying inmates ...

When Colombia's long guerrilla war ended, the country was able to open up new areas to tourism, including some areas that are not for people who spook easily. Gorgona is a snake-infested island that ...

The guerrilla war is over in Colombia and that's opening up some formerly off-limits places for tourism, including an island that formerly housed... Colombian Former Penal Colony Now Taking Tourists ...