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Nearly 300 communist prisoners overpowered guards and escaped from a prison in restive eastern India Sunday, police said.
A prison officer's failure to follow procedures created the opportunity for two felons to escape from a work detail and led to the death of a guard, a report on the killing concluded.
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the state of Iowa cannot fund an evangelical Christian prison ministry program because doing so advances or endorses religion, violating the Constitutional separation of church and state.
A bus carrying Montana State Prison employees to work struck a deer and overturned Friday morning, killing one person and injuring more than two dozen others, a state Corrections Department spokesman said.
A Roman Catholic priest who worked as a chaplain at a women's federal prison pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexual abuse for having sex with two inmates.
The warden of the Clayton County Correctional Institution wants permission to spend money for a "management tool," satellite TV to keep his 226 inmates occupied watching football.
A prison dental technician was taken hostage early Wednesday by an inmate doing life for murder, but the woman was released unharmed shortly before the inmate surrendered, authorities said.
Officials recovered the bodies of 30 prisoners Monday from a fire-scorched cellblock where inmates lit mattresses in what appeared to be an escape attempt, the worst prison fire in Argentina since 2005.
Wesley Spratt's house of worship is a cramped, windowless chapel at a maximum-security prison. A cross adorns a cinderblock wall and eight wooden benches seat the inmate congregation.
A prison card game dealt police the tip they needed to arrest a man in a killing that occurred nearly three years ago, authorities said Saturday.
A revolt at a Russian prison for minors swelled into a mass uprising that left two people dead and buildings gutted before guards and riot police restored order, officials said Wednesday.
A convicted tax evader who had holed up in his home for months after walking out of his federal trial arrived Wednesday at a federal prison in Ohio, authorities said.
A former inmate who says federal prison workers in Illinois defiled his Quran and tortured him with a nightstick when he complained has filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging he and other Muslims were mistreated at the prison.
Fifty-three children under the age of 6 live inside the prison with their mothers, who are serving sentences for crimes from drug dealing to kidnapping to homicide.
At least a dozen inmates here in Central California have died from the disease, which is on the rise in other Western states, including Arizona, where the health department declared an epidemic after more than 5,500 cases were reported in 2006, including 33 deaths
Nicky reports out of the central prison of Bukavu (DRC)
Convicted of attempting to kidnap 103 Chadian children, aid workers with the French aid group Zoe's Ark were sentenced to eight years of hard labor on Wednesday. But they may be sent back to France.
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday refused, at least for now, to order a hearing at which the government would have to explain in detail the destruction of C.I.A. videotapes showing the harsh interrogation of two suspected Al Qaeda operatives.
A federal judge in Central Islip ordered Varsha Sabhnani to jail Thursday, days after a jury found her guilty of enslaving and torturing two domestic workers at her Muttontown home.
A British citizen who spent 20 years on death row in the American state of Ohio has accepted a plea bargain and is expected to be freed in time for Christmas.
...In a long awaited decision, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously last week to retroactively reduce prison sentences for people convicted of crimes related to the possession and sale of crack cocaine....
"Al Haer, built to accommodate 1,200 inmates, is bright, airy and filled with light. Even though we walked the long corridors at night I found the artificial lighting easy on my eyes and the high-ceilinged cells not at all claustrophobic.
A rapist who avoided a jail term after raping a deaf mother-of-three in her bed while she slept has been jailed for seven years following an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Motorists caught using a hand-held mobile phone while driving could be jailed for two years under tough new guidelines issued today by prosecutors.
As New Jersey has banned the use of capital punishment in the state, its use nationally is also declining, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Two inmates escaped from a county jail, hiding the holes they made in the walls by putting up photos of bikini-clad women, officials said.
...They called him Iron Man, a hulking teenage football player with a baby face and winsome smile who lived with his parents in a small ranch house in the Buttonwoods section of town.
In "State and Revolution," comrade Lenin admonished that the state is an "organ of class rule." The corporate-fascist class that rules in the United States exploits racial differences in the lower classes through the creation of special socio-economic zones that "ghettoize" the l …
"When I get out I'm going to smoke a bomber," Price yelled to the crowd, as he was led, handcuffed, from the courthouse.
Both the US Supreme Court and the US Sentencing Commission acted this week to redress inequities in the sentencing of federal crack cocaine defendants, but changes in sentencing will be only marginal unless Congress acts to amend or undo the minimum sentences it has mandated for …
I Am Not To Be Ordered !!!!! Asked yes... But ordered??? No.... This is a great opportunity for me to learn how to say no....To learn how to refuse.. And how to refuse those who are blatantly attempting to manipulate me. This place [prison] is.... Manipulation Heaven....
Thank this war. The goddamned drug war. It is so incredibly senseless and stupid.
A U.S. agency that sets federal sentencing guidelines voted on Tuesday to make retroactive a recent reduction in recommended crack cocaine penalties.
Michael Vick wore the black-and-white striped convict garb Monday when he was sentenced to 23 months in prison. Multiple uncertainties cloud the question of whether the fallen star ever will wear an NFL uniform again.
Where do we start with the American sports tragedy that is Michael Vick? Perhaps, more importantly, where will this unique case of jurisprudence, and its corresponding calamity, end? What of the ramifications for those confused souls who can't fathom the fallout from all the wast …
Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison Monday for his role in a dogfighting conspiracy that involved gambling and killing pit bulls.
Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison Monday for his role in a dogfighting conspiracy. Federal sentencing guidelines suggested a year to 18 months.
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