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BALTIMORE — Five men in graduation caps and gowns filed into front-row seats to cheers and applause. As University of Baltimore faculty sang the men’s praises, large loops of barbed wire were just visible through windows bookending the podium. It was graduation day. Time to celebrate earning bachelor’s degrees in what their valedictorian called the “worst environment possible”: prison. The ...

There are authorised phone lines for inmates in prisons throughout the country, and with jammers in use, the lives of prison officers may be under threat.

Twenty-eight cellular phones, improvised weapons and marijuana were seized and 13 people arrested by North Central Division officers at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca on Thursday.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is being transferred to a single-cell room for one year after a Moscow court rejected his appeal against a 19-year sentence on extremism charges on Sept. 27.

Russia on Tuesday rejected an appeal lodged by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny against a court decision to jail him for 19 years in a maximum security prison on extremism charges.In August, a court in his prison outside Moscow handed him a 19-year jail term, accusing him of having created an organisation that undermined public security by carrying out "extremist activities".