Based on a story by Franz Kafka this Philip Glass opera is set at the turn of the 20th century on a remote island where a highranking visitor arrives to witness the use of a strange machine in the ...

But it can be seen in other writings as well — most violently in “In the Penal Colony” (written in 1914, incidentally, the year that World War I broke out), which centers a torturous ...

Carceral porn reached a new level of depravity on March 26, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (aka ICE Barbie) channeled Kafka in the penal colony and Lynndie England at Abu Ghraib and ...

(CNN) — A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The former deputy head of the Russian army's general staff was sentenced on Thursday to seven years in a penal colony for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.

A former ballerina who spent more than a year in a Russian jail for donating £40 to a charity supporting Ukraine has returned home to the US after being freed in a prisoner exchange. Ksenia ...

She was sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony in August. Ksenia was accused of treason against the Russian government when she donated $51 to a charity that allegedly supported Ukraine on Feb ...

Moscow: On Tuesday, a Moscow court sentenced four journalists associated with the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny to ...

The Hippie Pope after his Good Friday visit to Rome’s Regina Coeli jail + In Kafka’s “The Penal Colony,” a man called only the Traveler visits an island penal colony of a country not his own.