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Kazakh inmate scams businessman out of 50 million tenge via phone call Tengrinews.kz – A convict in Ust-Kamenogorsk has been sentenced for fraud, after managing to scam a businessman out of 50 million tenge while

06 September 2024

Dozens of inmates flee after Haiti jailbreak A jailbreak Sunday at a high-security prison near Haiti's capital left dozens of inmates on the loose.

11 August 2014

UN assembly slams Assad 'escalation' in Syria war The UN General Assembly condemned President Bashar al-Assad's "escalation" of the Syrian war on Wednesday as rebels battled to free inmates from a prison in the key city of Aleppo.

16 May 2013

US to see first electric chair execution since 2010 An American who murdered two fellow inmates to speed up his execution faces death on the electric chair Wednesday, the first execution of its kind since 2010, authorities.

18 January 2013

Mexico inmates escaped through front door: officials The 131 Mexican inmates who escaped from a prison near the US border this week fled through the front door, not a tunnel as previously believed.

22 September 2012

US lawmakers question China organ transplants US lawmakers called Wednesday for pressure on China to stop the use of organs from executed inmates, as experts charged that transplants had become a business that may target prisoners of conscience.

13 September 2012