The investigative minds at How to Survive examine environmental stress, psychology, and survival dynamics inside the world’s most dangerous prisons.

We hunted down the world's most dangerous criminal with a professional bounty hunter. After we caught criminal we trapped him in a LEGO prison while waiting for the authorities to come and pick him up ...

Thomas Silverstein is so lethal he spent 36 years in solitary confinement and has earned the nicknames 'Terrible Tom' or 'America's most dangerous prisoner' ...

The arrest of Kazem Hamad in Iraq is welcomed by Australian authorities, although the illicit tobacco trade that built his brutal empire shows no sign of waning.

For nearly a decade they existed in legal limbo. The Kurds could not try them, nor would they free them. Most Western governments, despite American pressure, refused to take their citizens back. But ...

The U.S. sent hundreds of Venezuelan men to a Salvadoran mega-prison. Two of those men describe beatings that occurred during months imprisoned in "hell." ...

Venezuelans spent months in a Salvadoran prison after being sent there by the U.S. Imprisoned men described torture — and research and records back up many of their claims.

In a 1974 address to a group of lay Catholics, Pope Paul VI noted that “Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are ...

At least 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025, making it the agency’s deadliest year since 2004. In just the first ten days of 2026, four people died in ICE custody. One of these deaths — of a Cuban ...

As Venezuela’s interim authorities began to release political prisoners, some of their families raced to the notorious prison that symbolized Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian rule. By Patricia Sulbarán ...

Power politics has returned to the Western Hemisphere with a vengeance. This was not an isolated military adventure. The US ...

Previous arrangements between the Syrian government and the SDF largely centered on temporary ceasefires, the management of contact lines, or narrowly defined security coordination. None evolved into ...