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This is the kind of stuff you see in movies. Over a 36 hour period, inmates took control of a New Mexico prison, holding guards hostage and killing ... each other.

The U.S. is sending anti-terrorism forces to Haiti as the nation continues to delve into violence and chaos.

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Renowned Reverend Bertin Kisob, incarcerated for six years due to his involvement in the Anglophone crisis, is set to commence an open-ended hunger st...

Water and sanitation sector players have donated quantities of relief items to inmates of the Ankaful Maximum Prison as part of activities to climax the 33rd annual MOLE water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) conference. The items included bags of rice, cleaning detergents, toiletries, sanitary towels, first aid medications, boxes and…

In prisons across Kenya and Uganda, the Justice Defenders organization is training hundreds of inmates, many of whom don't have their own lawyer, to become paralegals and attorneys.

DOC arrests employee at LA State Penitentiary on drug charges and last updated 2021-01-15 19:45:39-05 BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana Department of Corrections announced Friday that an internal investigation has resulted in the arrest of an employee of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. According to a release from DOC, a Louisiana State Penitentiary Corrections Officer intercepted an attempt to smuggle contraband by a corrections cadet at the prison Friday. West Feliciana Parish Sheriffs...

Over the years weve done a number of stories about wrongly convicted prisoners who get exonerated when a crusading attorney takes on their case. In prisons around the world, however, that rarely happens. In Kenya, for example, more than 80% of prisoners have never been represented by a lawyer. Justice Defenders would like to change that.  Its an organization started in Africa by a soft-spoken, 35-year-old lawyer named Alexander McLean.  Justice Defenders has worked in 46 prisons in Kenya and ...