PS Home, DG prison visit Central Jail of Kot-Bhalwal Jammu
Region: IndiaJammu, May 4 (Scoop News) –Principal Secretary Home Department, Suresh Kumar, accompanied by Director General of Prisons, K Rajindra, today visited Central Jail Kot-Bhalwal in connection with the ye... more
Views: 289Support Continues To Grow For Jason Puracal, An American Wrongfully Imprisoned In Nicaragua
Region: NicaraguaJason Puracal photographed in prison On August 29, 2011, U.S. citizen Jason Puracal was wrongfully convicted in Nicaragua of international money laundering, drug trafficking, and organized crime despite conclusive evidenc... more
Views: 1979Global Campaign to Save Jeju Island joins rally against South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak
Region: Korea
Global Campaign to Save Jeju Island to join rally against South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak at White House State Dinner By The Global Campaign to Save Jeju Island D... more
Views: 1694South Korean undercover police crack down on peaceful resistance to Jeju Island naval base construct
Region: Korea, Republic of
The South Korean government has ramped up its aggression in response to a tiny fishing village's peaceful resistance to the construction of a naval base there. This follows growing global attention to the residents’ ... more
Views: 2567Jails, like other institutions should be put under civilian control : IGP
Region: India
Srinagar, India,April 15 (Scoop News) – Inspector General Police, Kashmir Zone , Farooq Ahmad today delved in depth on the condition of prisons and prisoners both in the local context as well as the glo... more
Views: 1118Pres. Sirleaf Transforms Infamous Prison Camp of Belle Yella
Region: Liberia
By: Our Staff Reporter for Ceasefire Liberia The infamous prison camp of Belle Yella in one of the country’s newly created political sub-divisions of Gbarpolu County has been transformed into a national museum by ... more
Views: 1772POWER OF UNITY
Region: PakistanLast week in the city of Faisalabad a heinous act of crime is carried out by the prison authorities on the prisoners and the journalists equally. The prisoners have claimed for bad quality of food. For which they went to h... more
Views: 1169Former Myanmar Foreign Minister Dies
Region: MyanmarFormer Myanmar foreign minister Win Aung died in Insein prison, Yangon, where he was serving a seven-year sentence for corruption, police confirmed on Thursday. Win Aung, 65, died Wednesday morning from a cerebral hem... more
Views: 1269Pregnancy and Prisons: Women's Health and Rights Behind Bars
Region: United StatesDo all pregnant women deserve equal human rights, or do pregnant women in prison forfeit those rights? There are a few questions that come to mind regarding a pregnant woman's right to live and to raise her child when she... more
Views: 4203Greek Thief Breaks Out of Prison Via Helicopter
Region: GreeceNotorious Greek robber and kidnapper Vassilis Paleokostas escaped by helicopter from a high security prison together with his Albanian sidekick Alket Rizai. Paleokostas and Rizai fled the “Korydallos”- Prison i... more
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