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Iron rods, sticks, mobile phones recovered from inmates who ran amok inside Punjab's Kapurthala jailKapurthala jail saw unrest as hardened inmates clashed late Saturday. Police intervened with teargas and cane charges to restore order. Wea...
Punjab: Inmates run amok in Ludhiana Central Jail; Jail Superintendent injuredA violent clash at Tajpur Road Central Jail injured Superintendent Kulwant Sidhu after inmates attacked officials and police during a scuff...
States, UTs told not to segregate prisoners on caste, class or religionThe Union Home Ministry has urged states and Union Territories to stop segregating prisoners based on caste and religion and stop assigning...
41 hostage prison workers freed in Ecuador, 136 still captiveOver 40 Ecuador prison officials taken hostage by inmates amid a violent campaign by gangs have been released. The SNAI prisons agency stat...
Big clash breaks out between security guards & students over cigarettes inside Gautam Buddha University, 33 heldAs per reports, the clash between the two groups broke off after security guards allegedly objected to some students smoking cigarettes at ...
Gujarat: 7 inmates of Vadodara jail drink soap water after clash; hospitalisedThe seven who drank the soap water were rushed to the SSG Hospital in Vadodara on Wednesday night. Their condition is stable and they are r...
Why video conference facility not for foreign inmates?: HC asks prison authorityAdvocate Gautam Narayan, appearing for Director General, Prisons, said that further assistance on this aspect and reasons behind the policy...
Delhi riots: Ishrat Jahan alleges in court beating, harassment by jail inmatesThe court sought a detailed report from the prison authorities on Wednesday on the steps that have been taken to address the issue and to a...
Sri Lanka coronavirus prison riot leaves 8 dead, over 50 woundedThe incident comes as pandemic-related unrest has been growing in Sri Lanka's overcrowded prisons. Inmates have staged protests in recent w...
MHA plan to check radicals: high security prison in each state, UTThe National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), in a recent report on prisons, said jails in several states are overcrowded. “Studies of prisons ...
How cops prevented escape of 150 inmatesAmidst a violent clash between the police and lawyers at Tis Hazari court, 150 hardened criminals could have been out on streets if it were...
GoI wants to turn Kashmir into open-air prison: Mehbooba Mufti"GoI wants to turn Kashmir into an open air prison & convert actual jails into Guantanamo,” she tweeted.
Now, Cauvery trouble spills into city prisonAccording to the jail manual, for every 10 inmates, there should be one jail staff but there is only one warden for 400 to 500 inmates.
Foreign inmates protest against rice & ragi, demand wheat-based foodAccording to the prison manual, foreign prisoners should be kept in a separate cell to avoid clashes with local prisoners.
Tihar Jail vans to get GPS trackersThe move comes in the wake of Tuesday's violent clash in a jail van that resulted in the death of two prisoners.
NHRC issues notice to UP Chief Secretary over death of undertrial after alleged assaultA NHRC release said the state government had been given two weeks' time to submit a factual report regarding the matter.
UP government to upgrade jails with high-tech surveillance equipmentIn order to keep a tight vigil on inmates, the UP Government has decided to equip the prisons with high-tech surveillance equipment.
- Assam violence: NDFB kills migrant labourers from Bengal
Congress president Sonia Gandhi visited different relief camps in trouble torn areas of Kokrajhar and Dhubri.
- 21 inmates die in Mexico prison uprising
About 21 inmates died and at least 10 others were wounded in a clash between prisoners in a federal penitentiary in the northern Mexican ci...
- Over 100 Naxals escape from Chhattisgarh jail
In a daring jailbreak, 299 inmates, including 110 Naxal activists, escaped from the Dantewada jail in Chhattisgarh after prison guards were...