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Peru's new interim leader oversees prison raids in bid to get tough on surging crime
LIMA, Peru (AP) — In one of his first acts as interim president of Peru, José Jerí on Saturday led a series of raids on prisons holding…
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Global Sumud Flotilla activist sentenced to 10 days in prison after assaulting guard
The activist was fined 10,000 shekels and given a suspended fine of 5,000 shekels for three years. Seven detainees from the flotilla…
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Family waits, worries after SoCal activist with Gaza flotilla is sent to Israeli prison
Last week, David Adler posted what he said would be his final communication from aboard a boat sailing toward Gaza carrying medical…
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Wife of Russian dissident Navalny says he was poisoned in prison
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, said her husband was poisoned to death in 2024 in the penal colony where…
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Boris Becker: Prison turned me into a very cautious person
Boris Becker speaks candidly about his time in jail in his new memoir, "Inside," published in Germany last week and due to come out in…
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High Court majority rules: Israel Prison Service fails to provide adequate nutrition to prisoners
The petition alleged that the policy of trimming down food counts as hunger and holding prisoners in torturous conditions, which goes…
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Head-on crash between police van and prison bus kills 14 in Namibia
A head-on collision in Namibia involving vehicles belonging to the security services killed 14 people, including 11 members of the prison…
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'I thought it was the end of my life': Inside Israel's attack on Iran's Evin Prison
"For me, hell was not the moment Israel attacked; hell was the moment they wouldn't open the door for us," Motahareh Goonei recalls in an…
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Lyle Menendez denied parole, will remain in prison along with younger brother Erik
SACRAMENTO — A day after his younger brother was denied release, Lyle Menendez also saw California parole officials reject his bid for…
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Erik Menendez to remain in prison after decision by California Parole Board
SACRAMENTO — Erik Menendez will not be released, the California Parole Board decided in a highly anticipated and lengthy hearing Thursday,…
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Israel Prison Service track down two inmates who escaped jail, to continue serving sentence
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting…
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Why Is Ghislaine Maxwell Being Transferred to a Nicer Prison?
Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to a minimum-security prison amid speculations that Donald Trump might pressure the Epstein…
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Alleged leader of Mexican kidnapping ring released after nearly 20 years in prison
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The alleged leader of an infamous Mexican kidnapping ring walked out of a maximum security prison after nearly 20 years…
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'Hell on earth.' A Venezuelan deportee describes abuse in El Salvador prison
CARACAS, Venezuela — When Jerce Reyes Barrios and other Venezuelan deportees entered a maximum security prison in El Salvador in the…
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All eyes on Ghislaine Maxwell as longtime Epstein aide seeks prison relief
WASHINGTON — Uproar over the Trump administration’s handling of files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation continues to grip Washington,…
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Amanda Knox Slams New Criticism After Intimate Diary Entry from Prison Resurfaces Online
NEED TO KNOW Amanda Knox, 37, says police misled her into listing her past sexual partners while in prison A jailhouse diary entry was…
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RSF storms cattle market and prison in 'death trap' Sudanese city
The Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed the besieged city of el-Fasher on Friday in a battle that raged for…
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Teaching Men Who Will Never Leave Prison
It’s 2018. I am, for the first time, in a classroom at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, in Comstock, New York, a men’s maximum-security…
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Iran: 71 killed in Israeli attack on Evin prison in Tehran
Israel's attack on the notorious Evin prison in Tehran earlier this week killed at least 71 people, an Iranian spokesman said on Sunday.…
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Several killed by this week's Israeli strike on Tehran's Evin prison
Israel's airstrike on Tehran's notorious Evin prison claimed the lives of a number of civilians, including a 52-year-old social worker and…
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Judge orders due process for illegal immigrants deported to El Salvador's terrorist prison
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the government violated the due process rights of illegal immigrants when it speedily ousted them…
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Commentary: Even tough-on-crime district attorneys know prison reform is smart
On a recent morning inside San Quentin prison, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman and more than a dozen other prosecutors…
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Search for escaped police chief escalates as FBI offers $10,000 reward
The FBI has offered a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest of Grant Hardin, a former police chief who escaped from…
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Trump pardons Virginia sheriff convicted of bribery and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison
President Trump on Monday pardoned a Virginia sheriff who has been convicted of soliciting bribes in exchange for sheriff's badges,…