Inmate

Six inmates who sued New York’s corrections department over its decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar eclipse will get to watch the celestial event after all. Lawyers for the six men incarcerated at the…
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Three prisoners died and 16 others were injured in Zahle prison in eastern Lebanon on Friday when inmates set fire to their cells in anger after an apparent escape attempt was uncovered. Police said the blaze started in several cells on…
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Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the Iran-backed Houthis agreed on Monday to exchange over 800 inmates in a deal monitored by the UN and the International Red Cross. Representatives of the Yemeni government and the…
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Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces foiled an attempt to smuggle narcotics concealed in sunflower seeds into a prison in the north of the country. A 25-year-old Lebanese man who tried to deliver three bags of the seeds to an inmate at…
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Prisoners mutinied in a northwestern Syria prison Monday following a deadly earthquake, with at least 20 escaping the jail holding mostly Daesh group members, a source at the facility told AFP. The military police prison in the town of…
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The government of El Salvador said Monday it has arrested more than 1,000 gang suspects after a wave of killings over the weekend. President Nayib Bukele ordered food for gang members held in Salvadoran prisons be reduced to two meals…
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A riot erupted inside a northern Mexico prison over prisoners trying to extort money from others and 56 inmates were injured, authorities said Saturday. Officials said the riot began Friday at the Apodaca prison, just outside the city of…
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A Moroccan held for 19 years without charges at the US detention facility for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay has rejoined his family after questioning by police in this North African kingdom, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Abdullatif…
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Militants armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades launched a series of coordinated attacks overnight in southeastern Nigeria, targeting a prison where more than 1,800 inmates then managed to escape, authorities said Monday.…
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A Kansas woman, who strangled a pregnant mother and cut her baby out from her womb over a decade ago, has been put to death by the U.S. government — the first time in nearly seven decades for a female inmate. On Wednesday morning, Lisa…
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