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The austere building stands in the middle of a remote, thick forest surrounded by a high fence and numerous surveillance cameras.
Two of Britain's most high-profile Muslim extremists have been given free rein to recruit fellow inmates in prison and are spreading propaganda from behind bars, a think-tank founded by two former Islamic radicals said Monday.
Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch their neighbors continue to move away in despair over the lack of jobs.
The Obama administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural northwestern Illinois to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay along with federal inmates, a White House official said Saturday.
A White House official says the Obama administration is considering buying a northwestern Illinois prison to house a limited number of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, along with federal inmates.
Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners.
Police say escaped inmates set fire to a prison, a public market and a cultural center in western Honduras before authorities stopped the riot and captured 76 of the 79 fugitives.
A Lithuanian lawmaker says there is no evidence that U.S. airplanes with al-Qaida suspects ever landed in the Baltic country.
Nebraska is considering additional and different background checks for job applicants at state prisons after the state discovered it had hired as a guard a man wanted in the Czech Republic on drug and fraud allegations.
The operators of a Colorado private prison have agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that male officers forced female workers to perform sex acts to keep their jobs.
Eight California inmates have been injured after a fight erupted in a dining hall at Folsom State Prison.
A 24-year-old Florida man is back in jail, just days after he became a free man following a two-year sentence. Douglas Martin told investigators he was broke and homeless after getting out of jail. Police said he started robbing banks after seeing a news report of a serial bank robber who made it look easy. Martin's previous sentence was for burglary.
Illegal sex is a problem in Kansas prisons, but it's not as widespread as inmates and staff suggest, the state's top prisons official said Monday.
The NAACP is registering voters at prisons in Maine, one of just two states that allow all inmates to vote while behind bars, in what is apparently the nation's first such statewide drive.
Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, awaiting trial on charges he ran a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, will be moved from the lockup where he got into a jail fight that resulted in him being hospitalized for a concussion.
A British prison says a bunch of inmates have been caught with their hands clean — using hand sanitizing gel to get drunk.
A California prison was under lockdown Tuesday as administrators investigated a riot involving rival Latino gangs that sent 24 inmates to hospitals, one in serious condition.
Authorities say inmates at a California prison used canes, walkers and wheelchair parts as weapons in fights that sent 24 prisoners to hospitals and forced the facility to be put on lockdown.
A look at U.S. military detention facilities in Iraq:
The U.S. military on Wednesday closed Camp Bucca, an isolated desert prison that was once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it moves to release thousands of detainees or transfer them to Iraqi custody before the end of the year.
Cuba will allow inmates to attend Roman Catholic Mass and Protestant services inside prisons, a top religious leader said Tuesday, in a significant easing of the communist government's policy toward organized religion.
As Congress considers whether to allow state prisons to install cell phone jamming devices, New Jersey is grappling with ways to stop inmates from running criminal enterprises from behind bars.
A Detroit-area woman who wanted to freeze her eggs before going to prison for six years failed to persuade a judge Wednesday to delay her sentence by two weeks.
Colorado officials plan to release roughly 15 percent of the state's 23,000 prisoners early to help slash millions of dollars from the state budget.
Unintended Consequences of the New York City Terrorist TrialNew York City experienced Muslim Day in 2008. Then there was the pro-Hamas demonstration in Florida.
25 pounds of pot found in prison bananasEDINBURG — A police department's gift of fruit to a Texas prison turned out to contain 25 pounds of marijuana. The illegal harvest that was missed in an earlier search was discovered by inmates at the Segovia Unit unpacking the crate.
Gang sentenced for UK bank trojanA British court has sentenced four men to prison after they admitted they used sophisticated trojan software to steal almost £600,000 from bank accounts and send it to Eastern Europe.
Ohio to switch to 1 drug for lethal injection Ohio has become the first state to adopt a procedure for lethal injections that uses one drug, amethod, never tried before on U.S.
Murderers making their own prison bars You've probably heard of prison inmates making license plates. But at Indiana State Prison, they're making something different -- very different.
Inmates Train Abandoned Dogs For Families - Family News StoryLAS VEGAS -- Last year, almost 25,000 animals were put down at the four Las Vegas Valley shelters. But some dogs are getting a second chance thanks to an unlikely source -- inmates. Someone please convince me this is not a positive program! For everyone involved!
Guard slashed in throat at state's max prisonA housing unit at the state's maximum security prison is in lockdown after an inmate assaulted four correction officers last night, according to a Department of Correction official.
Kerik Pleads Guilty in Corruption CaseUpdated, 12:45 p.m. | Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York police commissioner, pleaded guilty to eight felonies in a Federal District Court in White Plains on Thursday morning. Mr. Kerik, who will be sentenced in February, faces 27 to 33 months in prison.
Pentagon Played Aerosmith and Nine Inch Nails to Torture Detainees; Artists Complain Will listening to hours of Britney Spears, Nine Inch Nails, or even the Meow Mix jingle make you lose your mind? That's exactly what military officials were hoping for when they blasted hours of loud music to prisoners detained at Guantánamo Bay and in Iraq and Afghanistan pri …
7-Month-Old Missing for 5 Days Found Alive In Box Under Baby Sitter's Bed; Sitter Previously Charged With 3-Year-Old's DisappearanceShannon Lea Dedrick was reported missing from her home in the rural part of the Florida panhandle by her parents on Saturday morning.
To: Inmate Brian Michael Lane, Florida Department of Corrections, DC# C02830 As the 1st year of our living hell comes around, I find myself thinking of you.
Sign of the times: adults admit stealing from nine-year-oldInstead of jail time, a woman and her adult daughter have agreed to stand outside a courthouse holding signs saying they stole a gift card from a nine-year-old girl on her birthday.
Buddhist prisoner believes cat is dead mother - inmate demands feline visitation rightsWith her green eyes and soft fur, Gisela the cat is much more than a pet to jailbird Peter K. - and she has caused a prison farce in Werl, Germany.
A faith-based prison is pushedThis tiny town near the Oklahoma-Kansas state line north of Enid may soon own the country's only all-Christian prison, with Christian administrators, employees, counselors and programs.
In Defense of Extreme Pornography Harvey Weinstein didn't bother to circulate a petition demanding her release. Debra Winger didn't issue a statement protesting the director's incarceration and anticipating her next masterwork.
A faith-based prison is pushedWAKITA — This tiny town near the Oklahoma-Kansas state line north of Enid may soon own the country's only all-Christian prison, with Christian administrators, employees, counselors and programs.
Georgia: Luxury Hotel Goes Up On Stalin - Era Secret Prison SiteSecret prison cells from the Stalin era have been discovered on a Tbilisi construction site for a $90-million luxury hotel for the international Kempinski Hotel chain
States Reconsider the Death Penalty A report released today by the Death Penalty Information Center concludes that states are wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on the death penalty, draining state budgets during the economic crisis and diverting funds from more effective anti-violence programs.
US president Barack set a January. 22 deadline to close Guantanamo. There is still much debate over his plan to hold some prisoners indefinitely.
The new face of islamic extremismLeone said members of the national group mostly are black and some converted to Islam while in prisons across the United States. "Abdullah preaches that every Muslim should have a weapon, and should not be scared to use their weapon when needed," Leone wrote.
Seems like the prison system is BROKEN!!!SANTA ANA, Calif. – A white supremacist gang member convicted of murder has told the Southern California jury deciding his penalty that he wants capital punishment because prison amenities are better on Death Row.
Disgraced cloning expert convicted in S. KoreaSEOUL, South Korea - A disgraced cloning expert who falsely claimed major breakthroughs in stem cell research was convicted Monday for embezzlement and other charges connected to the scandal, but he will not serve time in prison.
Man Throws Feces In CourtroomSAN DIEGO—A man who sneaked a bag of his feces into a San Diego courtroom during his home-invasion robbery trial, smeared it on his lawyer and threw it at jurors has been sentenced to 31 years in prison.
Angola arms traffickers convictedThe son of ex-French President Francois Mitterrand and an ex-government minister have been convicted for their roles in illegal arms sales to Angola.
Man jailed for selling human skullsA Chinese-American academic has been sentenced to eight years in prison for selling human skulls unearthed in China to buyers overseas, state media reported.
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