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BBC News
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A woman who punished three children in her care by ramming sticks down their throats and making them eat their own vomit has been jailed for 14 years.
Eunice Spry, 62, from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, was convicted at Bristol Crown Court last month,..
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Yahoo News
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Victor Manuel Lozano spends his days like most 2-year-olds. He goes to nursery school, draws, rides a tricycle. The difference is, he does it in prison, living with mom, a convicted murderer, and dad, a drug trafficker. Aranjuez Prison, Spanish officia..
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This Is London
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A Chief constable was accused of 'madness' last night after refusing to release pictures of two escaped murderers amid fears it might breach their human rights...
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Times Online
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A convicted murderer proved his innocence by investigating his own case from behind bars at a maximum-security prison and identifying the real killer. Roy Brown appeared before a judge last night to ask for a pardon after 16 years in jail for a crime he h..
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CNN
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Prosecutors in the Madrid train bombing case will seek prison terms of about 38,000 years for each of the seven prime defendants in the trial due to start next February, according to a prosecution order released Monday and viewed by CNN...
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CNN
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Life behind bars in a Russian women's prison is not glamorous. Convicted murderers serve time alongside thieves and drug dealers with few luxuries. But inmates of Women's Correctional Colony No. 5 are undeterred. Every year, this prison in western Russia..
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BBC News
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The chief interrogator of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge has wept while visiting a prison he commanded where at least 14,000 people were killed.
Kaing Geuk Eav, also known as Duch, cried during the visit to the S-21 prison, a day after he wept while visiting a..
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BBC News
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A man who escaped from a Belgian prison on Sunday has been recaptured in the neighbouring Netherlands.
Accomplices landed a hijacked helicopter at Ittre prison on Sunday, allowing Nordin Benallal to flee by car in the resulting confusion.
However, B..
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BBC News
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Chad's interior minister has said six French aid workers are likely to go to prison after attempting to fly more than 100 children out of eastern Chad.
Ahmat Mahamat Bachir told the BBC that a judge was expected to lay charges of child abduction agains..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Fewer people look set to be sent to prison in an overhaul criminal justice policy, due to be unveiled by the government today.
The policy review will recommend tougher community sentences and the removal of non-cash assets and driving licences as an al..
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News.com.au
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TASMANIA'S Risdon prison has been branded the worst in Australia by a prominent barrister after an inmate stabbed himself, forcing the jail into lockdown.
Prison Action Reform legal adviser Greg Barns said senior management at Risdon, near Hobart, was..
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BBC News
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The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a high school teacher from Arizona sentenced to 200 years in jail for possessing child pornography.
Morton Berger had claimed the sentence was so disproportionate to his crime it breached the consti..
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ABC News
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Gunmen stormed a Guatemalan prison and shot to death four jailed police officers in a mafia hit aimed at stopping investigators from finding out who ordered the slayings of three politicians from neighboring El Salvador, Guatemala's leader said Monday...
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The Register
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British prisoners could get email access if a limited Home Office trial proves successful...
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CBC
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A Winnipeg man was sentenced Tuesday to seven more years in prison and his common-law wife was sentenced to time served for sexually assaulting two girls, including a 12-year-old relative...
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