Hong Kong's former Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen was sentenced to 20 months in prison here on Wednesday for misconduct while in office.
The Indonesian government has vowed to fire or imprison guards found guilty of taking bribes from inmates in return for special treatment.
At least 30 inmates have been killed in a prison riot in northeastern Brazil, the latest in a wave of uprisings in the country's overcrowded prisons that have killed nearly 140 this year.
Armed men with links to Muslim rebels stormed a prison early on Wednesday (Jan 4) in the southern Philippines, killing a guard and freeing more than 150 inmates, police said.
Drug gangs sparked a prison riot that killed 56 people, with decapitated bodies thrown over prison walls in the bloodiest violence in more than two decades in Brazil's overcrowded penitentiary system, officials said on Monday.
At least 60 people were killed in a prison riot which lasted 17 hours in the northern city of Manaus, authorities said on Monday.
New satellite images of DPRK prison camps have been released, showing the continued existence of political prison camps described by the United Nations as being used to perpetrate “unspeakable atrocities”.
"16 years ago, insolvency led me to prison, but this did not break my will and I successfully started a new business inside the prison with the help of the penitentiary authority," Fatma Ahmed, an Egyptian lady in her 50s, said as she welcomed visitors at an exhibition displaying her handmade craft items in prison.
Supporters of Karachi's newly elected mayor Waseem Akhter rallying to demand his release from prison in Pakistan's largest city on Sunday.
An Indonesian child murderer has escaped from jail by putting on a woman’s Muslim veil, make-up and sunglasses and walking out past unsuspecting guards, an official said Wednesday.
Thirty-two people in east China's Zhejiang Province have been sentenced to up to 13 years in prison for trafficking endangered animals.
The Gorontalo Police have named Edi Nurkamiden the sole suspect in a recent riot at Gorontalo Penitentiary; Edi is accused of provoking inmates to attack security personnel and take over the prison.
The Pollsmoor prison restaurant in South Africa offers the public good food and MasterChef-level presentation at prices far more competitive than the exclusive wine estate across the road
Indonesia plans to further separate terrorist inmates Abu Bakar Bashir and Aman Abdurrahman by moving them out of Nusakambangan prison island, where they have already been locked up in isolation cells.
A private British prison company fired from managing a New Zealand jail amid a series of scandals last year is to pay the New Zealand government 8 million NZ dollars (5.49 million U.S. dollars) in compensation, the government said Monday.
Part of a prison in southern China has become an unlikely tourist attraction, with people breaking into the jail to see peach trees in bloom, according to a newspaper report.
Mexico's National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH) has opened a case into the riot at the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey in which 52 people died and 12 others were injured, the CNDH announced Thursday.
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