India and Pakistan should swiftly agree on humane treatment of...

Emergency services are on their way to the Lithgow Correctional Centre where a prison van has overturned. EMERGENCY services are on their way to the Lithgow Correctional Centre where a prison van has overturned. It is understood 12 inmates were in ...

Karen J. Greenberg, the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham, believes that by holding prisoners indefinitely at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the United States has turned its legal premises

An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a monkey was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday, court records show. Michael Watkins, 22, of Weiser, Idaho, in March pleaded guilty to attempted grand theft, a ...

A man convicted of breaking into a zoo and brutally beating to death a Patas monkey will spend up to a year in prison, where he'll take part in a treatment program. A judge sentenced 22-year-old Michael Watkins today for his role in the November 17 crime at ...

How appropriate the IRS scandal is breaking at the same moment OJ Simpson is trying to get himself sprung from prison. Because the promises by Washington to find those responsible for the IRS outrages against tea partiers sound an awful lot like OJs ...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN A CONVICTED burglar sentenced to over six years in prison caught a lucky break when the Court of Appeal reduced his jail time to four years saying the sentence by the subordinate courts was "excessive". Doni Hardi Hj Maidin, 29, ...

Zac Cree has been arrested hiding in a celing at a residence in Pacific Pines, Gold Coast Ashley Cullen is still on the run after escaping from Glen Innes prison early last month. A second inmate that allegedly broke out of the Glen Innes ...

Chief public defender, says the situation 'requires immediate action by all the parties concerned.' Dozens of prisoners are essentially being held in isolation in Eshel Prison in clear violation of the law, the Public Defender's Office concluded ...

A man has avoided serving prison time for twice punching another man in the head during an Ipswich street brawl that left the victim with a broken jaw. Andrew Paul Severn, 27, pleaded guilty to a charge of causing grievous bodily harm and was ...