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Criminals being set free in a bid to reduce overcrowding at a prison are reoffending and being returned to custody, an inspection report released Wednesday reveals.

Viktor Demchenko, a 71-year-old Ukrainian man, died in a Russian prison while on trial for espionage, activists said Sunday.

Ex-Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin, who was convicted for murdering George Floyd in May 2020, was reportedly stabbed Friday by a fellow prisoner in Arizona.

Republican officials blasted the Biden administration for “bowing to the Ayatollah” and “endangering” Americans, after it struck a deal with the Iranian

Wisconsin Senate Democrat candidate Mandela Barnes stated last year it is “unfortunate’ prisoners do not have voting rights, a video surfacing from the Republican National Committee revealed Sunday. 

A California prisoner admitted to strangling the notorious serial killer known as the “I-5 Strangler” in the prison cell they shared, adding that he wanted to “avenge” his victims.

Wisconsin Republican state Sen. Julian Bradley and Rep. Joe Sanfelippo proposed on Monday that prison convicts’ stimulus checks be withheld to help pay for their crimes.

Democrat Gov. Kate Brown may release 400 prisoners from Oregon jails for fear of the virus spread as nightly riots continue in Portland.

Poland’s national-conservative government, which recently made masks compulsory in public places to slow the spread of the Chinese coronavirus, has had prisoners produce one million in a month.

Three inmates died during a riot that broke out over the coronavirus at a prison in Modena, Italy, on Sunday afternoon. In Pavia, Italy, two prison guards were taken hostage and beaten during a separate revolt at another prison.

A New York state lawmaker is proposing legislation to make prison inmates eligible to vote in elections while incarcerated.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a sweeping criminal justice reform plan Sunday aimed to combat “institutional racism” in the country. The plan includes diversifying police forces, creating a civilian corps of unarmed first responders, ending cash bail, and cutting the U.S. prison population in half.

A convicted pedophile was found dead in Jacksonville, Florida, on Tuesday morning after reportedly being drowned in a toilet by a fellow prisoner.  

The South Korean-American pastor Kim Dong-chul, who was released by the North Korean regime last year after spending two years in a labor camp, confirmed in an interview published Tuesday that he had been spying on behalf of Washington and Seoul.

A January 2019 Department of Justice report on the criminal use of guns shows fewer than three percent of prisoners who used guns in crime acquired those guns at retail or a gun show.

The French prison population has increased by almost 25 per cent in ten years, leading to problems with overcrowding. A report published by the Council of Europe and released on Tuesday says there has been a 23.3 per cent increase in

Gayle Machin, vice chairwoman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), announced on Tuesday that she is “adopting” two prisoners in Iran as part of its Religious Prisoners of Conscience Project.

A member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights warns that two prison reform bills currently being considered by the Senate will likely serve to return prisoners sooner to their neighborhoods — where it is probable they will resume their criminal activity.

Reuters cited half a dozen experts on Wednesday who said the three prisoners freed by North Korea could suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), experiencing symptoms from “anxiety, depression, irritability, and anger” as a result of their ordeal.

On his flight home from North Korea on Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters the day and location had been set for the historic summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

The three men released from North Korea into the custody of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo put out a joint statement as they traveled home to the U.S.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to North Korea on Tuesday and is expected to return from the trip with three U.S. prisoners of North Korea ahead of the U.S.-North Korea summit, Yonhap News reported late Tuesday.

During Thursday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders could not “confirm the validity” of Wednesday media reports that three U.S. prisoners of North Korea had been released.

At a joint news conference with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said the United States is “fighting very diligently” to secure the freedom of three Americans held by North Korea.

TEL AVIV – A five-year-old Palestinian boy was caught at an Israeli prison trying to smuggle ten cellphones in his underwear to give to his father, a convicted Fatah terrorist, and other security prisoners at the facility.

Two prisoners took advantage of the hullabaloo surrounding Pope Francis’ recent lunch with inmates in Bologna to slip off unnoticed, and the two convicts are reportedly still at large.

Americans are mourning the death of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier, a college student who was arrested and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly stealing a poster in a hotel where he was staying.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has built and is using a crematorium inside his military prison complex to dispose of the prisoners executed at the facility in an attempt to hide evidence of mass killings, the State Department said.

TEL AVIV – Human Rights Watch (HRW) slammed the Gaza-based terror group Hamas on Tuesday for holding two Israeli citizens who are believed to suffer from mental illness and demanded their immediate release.

At least 86 Palestinian prisoners said Saturday they were ending their hunger strike, the Israel Prisons Service said. They joined some 100 other prisoners who ended their strike on Friday.

Inmates at a northern Brazilian prison filmed themselves cooking the bodies of rival gang members over an improvised grill following the latest in a series of riots throughout Brazil’s overpopulated, barely-controlled prison system.

TEL AVIV – Palestinians are a “thorn in the throat of Zionism” who have given Israel “a taste of grief,” according to a new pop song broadcast on official Palestinian Authority television.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian children performed in a play depicting “Zionist jailers” executing “heroic prisoners” as part of a closing ceremony for summer camps organized by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this week confirmed that the Palestinian Authority is continuing its policy of paying salaries to jailed terrorists, despite having previously claimed that it ceased to do so.

A unique reunion was held at Alcatraz on Sunday between former prison guards and former inmates to celebrate the 81st anniversary of the infamous federal penitentiary.

Five of the six former Guantánamo Bay detainees being hosted by Uruguay are refusing to sign an accord with the local United Nations body that would pay for their rent and utilities for one year, demanding that the United States subsist their lives and claiming they were promised three years of free living in the Latin American nation.