Inmates at a violence-prone Honduran prison seized hostages and battled among themselves, leaving at least one inmate dead and 11 wounded, authorities said Thursday. Prison director Orlando Leyva said some women were held hostage inside the prison in San Pedro Sula, where 13 prisoners died in a riot in March. Leyva said police had not [...]
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Aliens ‘told prisoner to kill cellmate’
A prisoner killed his cellmate in response to hallucinatory instructions from aliens to sacrifice someone in order to go to paradise, a judge has found. Mohamed Aliwijaya was in jail on remand for stabbing a friend in an unsuccessful attempt to obey the instructions, Justice Lucy McCallum said in the NSW Supreme Court on Wednesday. [...]
Lawyer: Administrative detainees agree to hunger strike deal
Prisoners on long-term hunger strike agreed late Monday to join a deal ending the strikes in exchange for improved conditions, a lawyer said. The Egyptian-brokered deal to end the mass hunger strike in Israeli jails will see the prisoners — including Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahla on a 77-day strike — released at the end [...]
Tear gas at Venezuela prison after gunfire erupts
Gunfire erupted at a Venezuelan prison on Tuesday, prompting National Guard troops to use tear gas as they sought to take back control from armed inmates. Venezuela’s government is trying to close La Planta prison following two escape attempts and complaints of overcrowding, saying the facility doesn’t meet standards. About half of the prison’s inmates have already been [...]
Repeat inmate bashing an indictment on prisons: judge
A NSW District Court judge has slammed the NSW prison system for not doing enough to rehabilitate young offenders, after a vulnerable young man who had already been bashed once in detention was bashed again in another facility and then isolated. In sentencing 22-year-old Craig Anthony Robb on three counts of break and enter in [...]
Inmates in Costa Rica Can Wear Women’s Panties and Cross Dress Says Supreme Court
The Constitutional Chamber of Costa Rica’s Supreme Court ordered prison officials to allow a male inmate to dress in women’s clothing after he claimed that they forbade him to do so, the La Nacion newspaper reported Sunday. David Avila Ulloa, who changed his name to Sherlyn Tatiana, has been in prison since March 2011 for drug trafficking [...]
Adelaide Women’s Prison staff threaten lockdown over return of violent prisoner
A VIOLENT prisoner at the state’s forensic mental health facility will not be returned to the Adelaide Women’s Prison after jail staff threatened a lockdown. The SA Industrial Relations Commission decided to postpone the woman’s return to the prison from James Nash House after the Public Service Association raised concerns over staff safety. “The particular [...]
‘Bad day’ leads to prison attack
A ROCKHAMPTON prisoner, on an indefinite jail term for stabbing a stranger with a penknife 13 times in a Brisbane park, has now been sentenced to 13 years jail for attacking a fellow inmate. Sean Stephen Hatten, 29, told prison staff he was having “a dip” – his word for a bad day – in [...]
Gunfire erupts at Venezuela prison, troops outside
Venezuelan troops and police stood guard outside a prison in Caracas on Monday after gunfire erupted during what an official said was the second escape attempt in three days. Authorities foiled an escape by an inmate at La Planta prison in the morning, said Iris Varela, the government’s top prisons official. She said the inmate [...]
Venezuelan official says prison break foiled
Venezuelan authorities say they foiled plans for a prison break when they discovered a tunnel that inmates had dug leading to a sewer. Prisons official Iris Varela says inmates at La Planta prison in Caracas had dug the tunnel leading to a sewer pipe that emerges alongside a river. Varela said authorities had been investigating the possibility of an [...]
Hospitalized prisoner manages to escape with policeman’s cell phone
A politically connected prisoner, hospitalised at the Hayatabad Medical Complex, broke free of his chains, dodged three police constables and managed to escape on Wednesday. “Amir Amin, son of Muhammad Amin, had been arrested by the Sarband Police on Bara Road on charges of smuggling drugs from Khyber Agency. He was handed a life imprisonment [...]
PSNI join hunt after prisoner flees jail
PSNI dog handlers and the police helicopter were deployed to capture a prisoner who escaped to Northern Ireland from an open prison in the Republic. In total, three inmates escaped from the prison, which has been at the centre of controversy over the transfer of dangerous criminals. Two prisoners were detained on Tuesday night in [...]
