TEHRAN, December 11 - A new study shows that the number of people sentenced to life in prison in the United Kingdom well exceeds figures in other European countries.
TEHRAN, October 31 - A suicide bomber blew himself up near the gate of Afghanistan's largest prison on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding three, officials said, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility.
TEHRAN, October 01 - At least seven people were shot dead and four were wounded on Sunday in a prison riot in Guatemala, according to local authorities, who said they had wrested back control.
TEHRAN, September 18 -Federal Prison Industries in Washington, D.C., has received a $110.2 million contract for interceptor body armor and tactical vests for the U.S. Army.
TEHRAN, September 11 - Heavily armed men blew down the front gate of a maximum security prison in northeastern Brazil early Monday and with guns blazing enabled 92 inmates to escape while killing a policeman, authorities said.
TEHRAN, August 25 -A new report has shown that the United Kingdom’s Prison Service actually failed to hire the staff it urgently needed in its prison facilities.
TEHRAN, July 31 - An Israeli court has sentenced a Palestinian poet to five months in prison for posting a poem on her social media accounts in support of resistance against the occupying regime.
TEHRAN, July 19 -A court in Turkey has sentenced a journalist of the center-left and opposition daily newspaper Cumhuriyet to more than two years in prison on charges of purportedly making people potential targets for militant outfits through her reporting.
TEHRAN, July 02 A top suspect of the 2016 coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has died of a heart attack in prison , state-run news agency Anadolu reports.
TEHRAN, June 26 - Hundreds of Palestinians have staged a rally in the central part of the occupied West Bank to express solidarity with detainees, who are languishing in Israeli prison s and detention centers.
TEHRAN, June 25 - A Chicago man has been freed after 36 years in prison for the murder of two police officers after a judge ruled police tortured him to get a confession.
TEHRAN, June 04 -A Vietnamese court on Monday upheld prison sentences against four human rights campaigners convicted of attempting to overthrow the state, a lawyer said.
TEHRAN, April 16 - Seven inmates were killed and 17 others injured in a riot at a maximum security prison in South Carolina overnight, one of the deadliest outbreaks of prison violence in the United States in decades, authorities said Monday.
TEHRAN, April 11 - At least 21 people died Tuesday in an attempted breakout from a prison in northern Brazil aided by an armed group on the outside trying to blow up a wall, officials said.
TEHRAN, March 15 - Police stormed a riot-torn prison in Bolivia early Wednesday, killing six inmates in an operation that also left two dozen people injured, authorities said.
TEHRAN, February 18 - A new investigation has found that two-thirds of prison s in the UK are providing their inmates with inadequate conditions or unacceptable treatment, according to a report.
TEHRAN, January 27 - Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, detained in the kingdom’s sweeping crackdown on corruption, said on Saturday that he expected to be cleared of any wrongdoing and released from custody within days, with his vast assets intact.