Last Updated: Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 17:31
The prisoners have been known to participate in menial activities during stay in jails, but the authorities in Bihar prisons have set out on a novel programme to draw inmates` interest in music.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 09:29
Authorities in Southern Mexico are searching for nine inmates who were broken out of a prison by an armed gang in a violent jailbreak that killed two guards.
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 17:39
British newspapers say that UK prisons are on the alert after a hostage-taking attack blamed on extremist Muslim inmates came days after an off-duty soldier was hacked to death on a London street.
Last Updated: Sunday, May 12, 2013, 17:48
Eight inmates escaped from a prison in Nepal through a tunnel dug by them.
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 23:30
Indian members of an Indo-Pak judicial committee on prisoners on Tuesday visited Sarabjit Singh who is in a comatose condition at a hospital here after being assaulted by inmates last week in a Pakistani jail.
Last Updated: Monday, April 29, 2013, 14:27
In the wake of brutal attack on Indian national Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani prison, Uttar Pradesh authorities have alerted the Jail Superintendents to make adequate security arrangements for neighbouring country prisoners.
Last Updated: Saturday, April 27, 2013, 23:15
The vigil has been stepped up in Tihar Jail to pre-empt any attack on Pakistani inmates in the wake of the brutal assault on Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail.
Last Updated: Thursday, March 7, 2013, 15:15
Officials said eight telephones would intalled in the Prison at various Places including Tower Block, CP Block, Hospital and High security block.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 27, 2013, 22:42
Venezuela`s top prisons official says authorities have finished evacuating inmates from a prison where 61 were reported killed.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 24, 2013, 20:32
The facility, also known as semi-open jail, would allow convicts to develop job skills.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 12:40
A routine inspection of a prison in Mexico led to an unexpected discovery of a crocodile in one of the prison cells, police said.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 10, 2013, 22:09
The incident of sexual assault on minor inmates of the government-run residential school for tribal girls in Jhaliyamari village of Kanker district came to light last Sunday.
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