More than 100 inmates escaped from a prison in Brazil's northeastern city of Recife on Saturday and two prisoners died in a shootout with the police.
The seventh most popular theater of Rome is inside a prison, and that actors are convicts. Surprised?
An amendment submitted to the legislature Monday proposes that criminals convicted on serious corruption charges who have received a two-year suspended death sentence will face life imprisonment after the two years.
Acting head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) indicated on Wednesday that the escaped Mexican drug mogul Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is still in his home state Sinaloa.
At least 64 prisoners staged a jailbreak at a prison in southern Brazil on Sunday night, according to Brazilian police on Monday.
Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto said Sunday he had instructed Mexican authorities to " work to re-apprehend" escaped drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" or " Shorty" Guzman.
Norway's mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is suing the government for violating his human rights by exposing him to extreme isolation in prison, local newspaper VG reported on Wednesday.
New York's second escaped inmate, David Sweat, has been shot and captured close to the Canadian border, local media reports said on Sunday.
At least two inmates were killed on Sunday in a riot at a prison in southeastern Brazil, said local civil defense services.
Egyptian courts handed on Wednesday 126 citizens various sentences, acquitted 13 and released 68 over violence and terrorism charges.
A massive protest was staged outside the main prison in Sri Lanka's capital on Tuesday with hundreds of protesters demanding for an investigation into a prison riot in 2012 which left at least 27 inmates dead and several others injured.
Six convicts carrying rifles and handguns who took hostages at Kaohsiung Prison in southern Taiwan killed themselves early Thursday morning, ending nearly 14 hours of standoff with the police.
The justice department of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province has revealed details about a prison scandal in which a prisoner reportedly used smartphones to blackmail several women.
An Algerian court Monday sentenced two al-Qaida-linked militants, including one Libyan, to five and 15 years in prison over terrorism-related charges, local media reported.
An Egyptian court sentenced the Muslim Brotherhood's top official Mohammed Badie and 26 of the Islamist group's leading figures to three years in prison for insulting the judiciary.
BEIJING, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Supreme People's Procuratorate has ordered Guangdong provincial prosecutors to investigate possible official misconduct behind a jailbreak, which saw two inmates climb over prison walls to escape on Saturday.
Unknown gunmen on Sunday invaded a prison in the west African country's central north state of Kogi, killing one prisoner and set free at least 144 inmates, the government said on Monday.
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