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An 11-year-old girl helping her mother baby-sit has been charged with murdering a 2-year-old, who suffered blunt-force trauma to the head, torso and buttocks, Georgia...
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Advocates say the women, who insist they suffered miscarriages, got caught up in Mexico’s cultural wars over abortion.
The seven women were accused of killing...
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Six women condemned to up to 29 years in prison for abortion will see their sentences reduced to eight years thanks to a reform in central Mexico, defense groups said...
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Inmates continue to experience sexual victimization in shocking numbers inside America’s prisons and jails, even as Attorney General Eric Holder defies a...
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Six women in the conservative Mexican state of Guanajuato have been sentenced to 25 to 30 years prison time for the crime of making decisions about their own...
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Four journalists have gone missing in the north Mexican state of Durango, a human rights body says.
The four had been covering protests at a prison in Gomez Palacio,...
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In the state of Guanajuato six women are currently serving long prison sentences for homicide — because they had abortions. Guanajuato, with Mexico’s highest rate...
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A woman in the United States has been jailed after pleading guilty to having sex with the biological son she gave up for adoption and later tracked down on the...
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The Guatemalan government says the latest in a series of gruesome murders will not make it give in to demands by gangs to loosen prison rules.
On Monday, a female...
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Four suspected al-Qaida gunmen blasted their way into the intelligence headquarters of Yemen’s second largest city Saturday and freed several detainees in the...
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The director of the Mexico’s National Institute for Women (Inmujeres), Rocio Garcia Gaytan, stated that in the past five years the number of women in prison for...
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By the time the trumpets sound, the candles have been lit and the salmon platters garnished. Harald V, King of Norway, enters the room, and 200 guests stand to greet...
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When Mexican drug traffickers need someone killed or kidnapped, or drugs distributed in the United States, they increasingly call on American subcontractors —...
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At least six inmates died and 15 were injured in a riot at Yare I prison in central Venezuela, the head of the national prisons service said Tuesday.
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Another Prison Break was about to happen in the prison of Kenitra last Tuesday when ten prisoners who belong to Assalafiya Aljihadiya tried to escape but fortunately...
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The woman has joined her daughter and granddaughter in prison facing charges that they murdered a man to collect $2.4 million (£1.7m) in insurance money, the Mexico...
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Amnesty International and Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) have disclosed that some Nigerians and other Africans are being held without trials...
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Schwarzeneggers’s daily stunts to keep his state afloat are getting more ridiculous.
The governor probably wasn’t joking yesterday, when he suggested...
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A fight at a jail between rival drug gangs in northwestern Mexico killed 23 inmates on Wednesday, the army said.
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In August last year i wrote a story on an EX- coffee boss who was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of defiling three underage girls. Its now...
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A Sicilian man stole sweets and a packet of chewing gum so he could get arrested and spend New Year’s Eve in a jail cell rather than be with his wife and...
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WOMEN inmates at Luzira Prison have asked to be granted the right to have sex with their husbands within the prison walls. This, they argued, would help in the...
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Matthew White, 22, said he was surfing for pornography two years ago on Limewire — a fire sharing application that allows users to trade music, movies, games and...
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At least five inmates have burned to death in a fire at a prison in north-eastern Brazil, officials say.
They said about 40 other prisoners were injured at the jail in...
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A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home, Italian media reported...
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A British prison says a bunch of inmates have been caught with their hands clean — using hand sanitizing gel to get drunk.
Peter McParlin of the Prison Officers...
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Social development minister Paula Bennett made headlines in July when she released private information on two women who had criticised the governments welfare policies,...
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NFL Roger Goodell has conditionally reinstated former player Michael Vick after completing his 20-month jail sentence related to federal dog fight charges.
Vick will...
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After successive governments campaigning on and then implementing “tough on crime” policies, New Zealand has achieved one of the highest per-capita incarceration...
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Imagine answering the telephone to hear an unknown voice with the bloodcurdling screams of your only daughter in the background. The callers voice is calm and cold...
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On January 8, 2009, Mr. Edward Chrisman, 88, of Arlington Washington and his grandson, Gary Chrisman Jr, 40 of Yuma, Arizona were arrested and charged in Los...
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A mentally deranged man, who was awarded death sentence in a Texas Court pulled out his only good eye and ate it.At least this is what he told the authorities.
Andre...
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Government plans to enable police to hold terror suspects without charge for 42 days have caused “considerable concern” at Europe’s human rights...
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A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interviewed on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts:
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The union representing California state prison guards filed a formal notice that it will seek to oust Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a move his advisers say they are...
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“Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime” was a phrase uttered by Tony Blair pretty early on in his time as Leader of the Labour Party. It was short, punchy...
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Capital punishment, more popularly known as the death penalty is the execution of a person by the state as punishment for a crime. The discussion regarding the death...
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On the eve of a Lords ruling over US demands for his extradition, a British computer hacker claims that American prosecutors threatened to haul him before a military...
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A soldier stands guard near a state prison during a riot in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, March 4, 2009. A fight between gangs after a conjugal visit at a state prison in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has left at least 20 prisoners dead...
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