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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Officers held in jail siege
Prison officers yesterday received minor injuries after they were held hostage by maximum security prisoners at Tasmania’s troubled Risdon Prison. The correctional officers were embroiled in a 30-minute standoff yesterday involving eight inmates, some armed with improvised weapons such as broom handles, according to the director of Corrective Services, Robert Williams. The siege was ended [...]
Pak death row prisoner surrenders after escape
Islamabad: A death row prisoner, who escaped with hundreds of other inmates when Taliban militants stormed a jail in northwest Pakistan, has turned himself in to police in the hope that his “good deed” will earn him a reprieve. A week after the jailbreak at Bannu in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Mohammad Hanif, 47, walked into a [...]
Woman prisoner alleges torture by jail warden, HIV+ inmates
A Tihar Jail’s woman prisoner, facing trial in cases of cheating and forgery, has accused the jail warden of torturing her with the help of HIV positive woman inmate for extorting money from her. In a plea to a Delhi court, Honey Sharma, lodged in Jail 6 of Tihar Jail, has also apprehended that she [...]
Gunfire in Meerut Jail as Cops, Inmates Clash, 11 Hurt
Rioting broke out at the district jail here Wednesday with prisoners pelting stones at policemen and jail staff and the security forces resorting to gunfire, injuring at least 11 people, to thwart the virtual jail-break attempt, officials in Lucknow said. However, district officials here put the figure of those wounded at 150. The mob frenzy [...]
Prison in lockdown over strike
The operator of the Fulham Prison near Sale, in the state’s east, denies it is looking for strikebreakers, as an industrial dispute escalates. All inmates were locked in their cells yesterday afternoon, after prison officers stepped-up their industrial campaign. Officers are campaigning for a pay rise and an increase in minimum staffing levels and began [...]
