prisons and jails

Dehli rape suspect Ram Singh, 33, allegedly committed suicide in high-security Tihar prison on Monday. His family is demanding an investigation, ruling out suicide.

A fight involving 400 inmates at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tuscon on Sunday night left 17 prisoners and two staff members injured. Prisoners’ rights advocates spoke out against some conditions in Arizona prisons before the incident.

400 inmates were involved in a fight at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tuscon on Sunday night. The cause of the melee is under investigation. In the many prison riots across the country in the past century, the causes have varied from overcrowding to racial tension.

Obama pardons 17 convicts on Friday, his first use of the presidential clemency power in his second term. It is a liberal use of clemency compared to the beginning of his first term, but still far more conservative than past presidents.

An U.N. resolution to abolish capital punishment will be voted on in December. South Sudan’s justice system is under scrutiny as human rights groups urge the country to join the resolution.

California passed a bill Sunday that will give a second chance to those sentenced as youth to life without parole.

Georgia’s President deployed police to the country’s prisons after videos showing purported beatings and rapes of convicts surfaced, triggering a wave of protests.

Officials on Rikers Island, the city’s major jail complex, have begun using body scanners to locate weapons that inmates may try to sneak past guards, according to NY1.

Venezuela said it took control of a prison in the western state of Merida after prisoners rioted for nearly a month and left 22 inmates dead.

An employer was sentenced to jail time and probation for underpaying his workers, the second time Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman secured a sentence for the crime in less than seven days.

Prison closures could add to problems in already overcrowded facilities.

The local Communist Party would pay a bonus of 5,000 yuan (US$790) to encourage the prison to exert extra effort forcing the practitioner to give up his or her beliefs, Jing was told.

Canada is closing two outdated federal prisons but critics worry about the loss of space.

A fire at a prison in Honduras on Wednesday killed at least 272 inmates and left dozens unaccounted for.

After two whistle-blowers accused a Miami clinic of giving kickbacks to doctors for referring patients, the Department of Justice (DOJ) settled the case with $3 million.

In the years since the death penalty was reinstated in Illinois, investigators have uncovered a wealth of problems within the administration of state capital punishment.

Both governments have assumed combative stances following the Mexican jail sentence of French woman, Florence Cassez.

The United States said it would not recognize the victory of incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko as legitimate. It also called for immediate release of all detained presidential candidates and protesters.

Justice Minister Ken Clarke of Britain is planning to drastically change the prison system. By reducing the number of prisoners most likely to re-offend the number of overall inmates will drop.