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Cuba has freed one of the 54 political prisoners still behind bars following a state crackdown on dissent six years ago and also paroled a Spanish businessman awaiting trial for bribery, officials in Spain and a Cuban political opposition group said Tuesday.
The interrogator politely apologized for grilling the prisoner about her role in the mass protests over Iran's disputed presidential election.
A British court issued a landmark ruling Friday, allowing a transsexual prisoner serving life for manslaughter and attempted rape to be transferred to a women's prison.
A Hamas legislator in the West Bank says Israel has released nine other Hamas lawmakers from Israeli prisons.
A Guantanamo inmate who said the prison's harsh conditions drove him to attempt suicide has been sent to Portugal, the U.S. said in court documents.
The family of one of the youngest prisoners ever held at Guantanamo plans to sue the U.S. government to compensate him for mistreatment and an adolescence lost to nearly seven years in a cell, his lawyers said Thursday.
One of the youngest people ever held at Guantanamo was welcomed home Monday by Afghanistan's president and joyful relatives after almost seven years in prison — freed by a military judge who ruled he was coerced into confessing to wounding U.S. soldiers with a grenade.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he will not reverse a state parole board's decision to release a terminally ill Southern California woman who was convicted of murder in the 1982 death of her abusive boyfriend.
The Obama administration said Monday it was pleased that Sen. Jim Webb had arranged the release of an American citizen from detention in military-run Myanmar.
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi may agree to Washington easing sanctions against the military government, a U.S. senator said Monday after securing the release of an American who had been jailed for sneaking into the democracy leader's home.
Family members of a Missouri man imprisoned in Myanmar for swimming to the home of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi waited Saturday for his return to the United States, and said they were thrilled that his ordeal appeared to be over.
A federal appeals court in Virginia has upheld the conviction of the first American civilian found guilty of mistreating a detainee during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Thirty-seven U.S. senators are asking Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet to release a dissident Roman Catholic priest serving prison and house arrest terms totaling 13 years.
Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday said the army must file stiffer charges against soldiers who were filmed abusing a bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner last year.
Israel's prison service says it is freeing the Hamas-affiliated speaker of the Palestinian parliament after nearly three years in jail.
A sample Friday menu for prisoners in Georgia, who are now getting only two meals that day as the state tries to save money:
The recession is hitting home for inmates, too: Some cash-strapped states are taking aim at prison menus.
Like plenty of fathers, Kevin Bell took his young daughter to Chuck E. Cheese's for her birthday. He just had to get a ride from his jail cell to do it.
The last-known prisoner jailed on the charge of hooliganism after protesting the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement has been released ahead of the 20th anniversary of the suppression, a rights group said Tuesday.
A Yemeni held at Guantanamo slashed his wrist and hurled the blood at his lawyer during a meeting at the prison, the attorney said Monday, describing the incident as a suicide attempt by a psychologically troubled man who should be returned home immediately for treatment.
For some imprisoned in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, getting out of jail has not meant freedom.
This week's release of Sara Jane Olson to her adopted home state of Minnesota leaves one last member of the violent 1970s-era Symbionese Liberation Army still in prison, serving out the final months of his California sentence.
Several monks and three members of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's political party were among the more than 6,300 prisoners released by Myanmar's junta as part of a government amnesty, a party spokesman and a rights group said Sunday.
A Michigan judge says he's learned a lesson about locking his car after a 16-year-old prisoner who escaped from a courthouse cell was found hiding in the vehicle's trunk.
A private prison transportation company lost an attempted-murder suspect somewhere between Florida and Pennsylvania, leading to a search for the cuffed and shackled inmate and drawing complaints that such companies are poorly regulated.
Soldiers 'hit and kicked' MousaA former British soldier has admitted for the first time that he saw two of his colleagues kicking and hitting an Iraqi prisoner shortly before he died.
Spiritus Legis & the Larrañaga Prison-Exchange-with-Spain Case[Manila, Philippines] In respect of the 1997 rape-slaying of two sisters which saw the conviction of Francisco Larrañaga and six others, you raise the point that Larrañaga's transfer of confinement to some penitentiary in Spain was not a miscarriage of justice because it was …
Court Rules that Sheriff Joe Arpaio Can No Longer Block Prisoners' Access To Abortion CareIn a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, an Arizona court found today that Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio can no longer require inmates seeking abortion care to prepay their transportation and security costs before they can obtain an abortion.
Sheriff: Prisoner Used Shoestring To Strangle Cellmate A 29-year-old prisoner at the Martin Correctional Institution used a shoestring to strangle his cellmate because he was "a pervert," according to an arrest affidavit.
Where are the Filipino nationalists, anti-rapists & anti-murderers?[Manila, Philippines] Where are all of those organizations and nationalist who were out for the blood of Daniel Smith, the American Marine who was accused of raping a Pinay? Why are they not out in the streets protesting the fact that Spaniard Francisco "Paco" Larrañaga, a …
Prisoner gets top rank in Kerala equivalency examination Thiruvananthapuram: A 27-year-old life convict lodged in a jail has notched up the first rank in the Tenth Equivalency examination in Kerala.
British News: WTF! Prisoner 'drunk on swine flu gel'A Dorset prison has removed anti-bacterial hand gel pumps, which contain alcohol, after an inmate reportedly got drunk on them. The gel was made available on Monday at HMP The Verne in Portland to help combat the spread of swine flu.
New Review System Will Give Afghan Prisoners More RightsHundreds of prisoners held by the U.S.
Prisoner implicated in killing has family history of murder Five members of Diamond Blair's family have been convicted of murder. Now he has been implicated in a slaying, too.
Kissing you leaves me gasping for control, and without you I will never again be whole. Lost in your love I dally for what seems a second, While you tantalizing lips continue to beckon. I am your prisoner.
20-year-old prisoner blogs while in jail - St. Petersburg TimesTeddy Braden is in the Pinellas County Jail. That's not that unusual. He's not yet 21. That's also not that unusual. He's in on a drug charge. That's definitely not that unusual.
Cheney Criticizes Probe of CIA InterrogationsFormer vice president Richard B.
Obama Defies Federal Courts in Holding Yemeni DetaineesOn Monday a federal court judge ordered the Department of Defense to release a 47-year-old father of two with a heart condition who it has imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for the past seven years without justification.
Ball and chain found in Thames A ball and chain believed to have shackled a convict who drowned trying to escape has been found in the banks of the Thames.
Woman Says Husband Held Her Prisoner A Panama City Beach woman said her husband has been holding her prisoner inside their home. David Michael Lewis, 42, was arrested on assault and false imprisonment charges after his wife contacted authorities on Tuesday
Obese US man hid gun between rolls of fat George Vera, an obese prisoner in Texas, has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm after he was discovered to be hiding a 9mm pistol in between his rolls of fat.
Kos: Republicans must do everything Hispanics want or we won't vote for them (Sotomayor)The great Kos speaks (dailykos.com/story/2009/8/7/763043/-It-WAS-an-incredible-day-for-Latinos):
Irony, Thy Name Is "Iran" -- Iran Releases 140 "Characters" From Prison After Wave Of ProtestsIran today responded to growing criticism over political detainees by freeing 140 inmates incarcerated in its most notorious jail following the recent post-election upheavals.
Prisoner gets supervised sex in plea deal A PRISONER was allegedly shifted to a police station to have sex with his girlfriend and inject drugs in exchange for pleading guilty to 20 break and enters.
In a couple of other articles some people, myself included were discussing a database project of services available to homeless (or otherwise "economically challenged") people using the talents here on newsvine.
Five-day hunt for missing prisoner who was hiding in jail all the timeA woman thought to have broken out of jail gave herself up after hiding INSIDE the prison for five days. Warders discovered Aishatu Ishaku was missing during a routine headcount and immediately locked all inmates in their cells.
Supreme Court Rules that Inmates Don't Have Right to DNA TestsConvicts do not have a right under the Constitution to obtain DNA testing to try to prove their innocence after being found guilty, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. More Articles
Prison cock-up . prisoner escapes after his penis balloons to double its normal sizePrison guards have been rapped for a cock-up that allowed an inmate to escape after injecting his manhood with paraffin. Valeri Veselinov, 30, told guards he needed urgent medical treatment after his penis ballooned to more than twice its normal size in his cell in Pleven, Bu …
Prisoner flees Bosnia prison as guard forgets to lock cell A suspect in a German jewellery heist who was being held in a Bosnian prison sauntered to freedom after his jailers forget to lock his cell, officials said on Tuesday.
A Worrying Wish List from WashingtonBerlin is being asked to take in nine Guantanamo inmates. So far the development is perceived as a first test of trans-Atlantic relations under President Barack Obama.
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