Prison
DR Congo ex-warlord gets life term for war crimes
Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka was convicted of "murder, rape, sexual slavery, enlisting children under 15 years old" a decade ago, a military court ruled.
The bail application of Omotoso, and his two co-accused was on Wednesday dismissed. The trio's accused of several offences including rape and human trafficking.
The South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights says government needs to expand its category for prisoners who qualify for the parole dispensation.
The Department of Correctional Services said both had other medical conditions.
The country has 22,000 inmates, though the prisons are only built to hold 17,000.
The letter added that the deaths were as a result of years of severe understaffing and neglect at Mississippi’s prisons, NBC said.
It's aimed at preventing the smuggling of contraband.
The 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' star met with President Donald Trump on Wednesday to discuss prison reform as part of her ongoing push to free prisoners serving draconian sentences.
The Department of Education report traces how that shift has impacted state and local budgets.
The Correctional Services Department says it appears the inmates carefully planned their escape.
An exclusive look inside one of South Africa's prisons as inmates smoke mandrax inside one of their overcrowded cells.
Popcru says the majority of former inmates return to crime because they don’t receive necessary skills.
The prisoners reportedly overpowered an officer at the Lentegeur Police Station on Saturday.
Western Cape police are still searching for five prisoners who escaped from holding cells in Mitchells Plain.
Police say the group overpowered a constable who was in the cells on Sunday night.
A British employee of Kyrgyzstan's biggest gold mine compared a national dish to a horse penis.
A look inside the Kgosi Mampuru II correctional centre and the workshops where prisoners work during the day.
Budi Waseso said he was now thinking of using tigers and piranha fish too.
The group made their brazen escapes from the Tubatse and Mecklenburg cells over the weekend.