WHANGAREI: A man in New Zealand has chosen to serve the rest of his sentence in prison after telling authorities that he was “sick of playing Xbox” at home.The convict in Whangarei had one month remaining in his 11-month home detention term when he asked police if he could be locked up ...

Lakki Marwat -Six prison cops were arrested for negligence after an under trial prisoner escaped from Lakki district jail.Aamer Rauf facing murder charges had fled the jail taking the advantage of negligence of prison cops. An official in Lakki Marwat Police Station said that six jail personnel ...

At least 45 Indian fishermen were released on Friday from Karachi’s Malir Prison and are to be handed over to Indian authorities at the Wagah border on Saturday, said Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International.Chairman Ansar Burney said all expenses to send the fishermen to India would be ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that his administration would reengage Congress on closing the notorious US military run prison at Guantanamo Bay."It needs to be closed," Obama said at a White House news conference. "I'm going to go back at this."Obama's comments came amid ...

MEXICO CITY : At least 13 inmates were killed and 87 others injured in a prison riot in the state of San Luis Potosi, north of Mexico City, said state governor Fernando Toranzo. Of those injured, at least 22 were hospitalized with serious injuries, Toranzo said in a late Saturday press conference. ...

NEW YORK:  The teen Boston Marathon bombing suspect, recovering from wounds suffered in a getaway attempt, has been moved from a hospital to a prison medical facility, theUSMarshals Service said Friday. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was sent to the Federal Medical Center Devens near Boston, spokesman ...

The bail of former OGRA chairman Tauqir Sadiq has been approved and he has been released from the Abu Dhabi prison.According to Media Reports, the next hearing of the case will be held on April 20 and as part of his bail Sadiq has submitted his passport to the court and been barred from leaving the ...

WASHINGTON - The United States and Afghanistan have agreed to transfer control of Bagram Prison near Kabul to the Afghan government, officials said. US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagl and Afghan President Hamid Karzai reached the deal Saturday, Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement. ...

Wesley StephensonIt's an oft-repeated claim that there are more black men in prison in the US than in college. It's a good statistic that apparently gets to the heart of the problem of inequality in the US, but is it having a negative effect on young black men? And, more importantly, is it true?In ...

 Nearly 400 prisoners including militants escaped early Sunday from a jail in Bannu after an attack by insurgents armed with guns, grenades and rockets, officials said.More than 150 heavily-armed militants stormed the central prison outside the restive northwestern town of Bannu bordering the ...

Jailed former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has sent a letter to penitentiary officials saying she refuses to wear prison robe and work while in detention, RIA Novosti reported Saturday.Tymoshenko was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2011 for overreaching her ...

President Karzai welcomed official calls to release hundreds of prisoners from US and Afghan jails yesterday as a gesture of goodwill to kickstart peace talks with the Taliban. At the end of a three-day peace conference, delegates urged the President to free captives held on the basis of wrong ...

Senator Talha Mahmood said that the administration and the staff of prisons should be provided the same facilities which are being given to police force so that the corruption can be ended. Addressing in connection with his visit of Quetta district prison and the prison reforms, the chairman of the ...

Three militants were executed late Saturday for helping plan and carry out the 2002 Bali bombings that left 202 people dead, many of them foreign tourists, lawyers and relatives said. Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim, and Ali Ghufron were executed just before midnight several kilometers from their ...

Thailand's Supreme Court found ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra guilty of conflict of interest Tuesday in connection with a land deal for his wife and sentenced him in absentia to two years in prison. Thaksin was, however, cleared of more serious charges of abusing his powers to obtain the ...

Ten inmates were shot dead during a riot in a Syrian jail outside Damascus on Saturday, according to a human rights group. "Islamist prisoners started a riot inside the prison this morning and the number of people killed is 10," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement ...

Canada will help rebuild a prison in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar following a mass jailbreak at the site by Taliban militants, the foreign ministry said. "Canada has contributed to both infrastructure and training" at the Sarpoza Prison in Kandahar City, read a foreign ...

At least 15 security guards were killed during a Taliban attack on a prison in southern Afghanistan that freed hundreds of militant inmates, a senior local lawmaker said Saturday. "We've discovered the bodies of 15 security guards who were killed in the attack. The casualties might be ...