Police bring accused persons for their COVID-19 tests at a centre, amid a countrywide spike in coronavirus cases, in Prayagraj.

Police personnel brought back gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari at Banda jail from Punjab, in Banda district.

Police personnel brought back gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari at Banda jail from Punjab, in Banda district.

An ambulance enters the Police Lines Rupnagar as part of arrangements for the shifting of gangster-turned politician Mukhtar Ansari from Punjab to Uttar Pradesh jail, in Ropar.

Burned vehicles are parked outside the police command headquarters in Owerri, Nigeria. Hundreds of inmates escaped from a prison in the southeastern Nigerian city after a series of...

Pedestrians walk past a body of a prison inmate lying on a street near the Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison after an attempted breakout, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. At least seven peo...

Recaptured inmates are escorted by police back to the Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison after an attempted breakout, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. At least seven people were killed and o...

Relatives of inmates cry outside the Centro de Privación de Libertad Zona 8 prison where riots broke out in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Deadly riots broke out in prisons in three cities a...

Inmates throw bricks at the police from the roof of Tacumbu prison during a riot and after they took control of the place in Asuncion, Paraguay.

Family members meet a prisoner after the authorities resumed 'Mulaqat' following a gap of over 10 months amid coronavirus pandemic, at Amphalla jail in Jammu.

Police personnel stand guard as Republic Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami being shifted to Taloja Central Prison from Alibag, in Navi Mumbai.

Dr Kafeel Khan (C) following his release from Mathura jail after the Allahabad High Court quashed his detention under the National Security Act and ordered his immediate release, i...

An inmate works on a manual loom at Amphalla district jail, in Jammu.

A woman stands near a renovated interaction chamber for prisoners serving their term, at District jail in Jammu.

Under-trial prisoners who were shifted from Mangalore to Chikmagalur district jail stand in queues as they wait for their heath-checkup, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Ch...

A police officer stands on the roof during a prison riot at Castro Castro prison in Lima, Peru. Peru's prison agency reported that three prisoners died from causes still under inve...

Inmates hold a sign that reads in Spanish "Right to life. We want to live but outside these walls," as they gather at a patio during a prison riot at Miguel Castro Castro prison in...

Inmates gather around the corpses of other inmates during a prison riot in Miguel Castro Castro prison, in Lima, Peru. Peru's prison agency reported that three prisoners died from ...

In this photo released by El Salvador Presidency Press Office police wearing masks as precautions against the new coronavirus guard inmates, also wearing masks, during a security o...

Rioting inmates burn mattresses from the roof of the Villa Devoto prison to protest against authorities who they say are not doing enough to prevent the spread of coronavirus insid...