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A New York man was awarded $10 million after spending 16 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, his lawyer said Wednesday.

• 21 августа 2014, 14:40

Canada's self-proclaimed "Prince of Pot" returned home , vowing "political revenge" after spending more than four years in a US prison.

• 13 августа 2014, 13:36

Just hours after he bust out of a high-security prison, Natalya Nikitenko drove her son right back to jail.

• 12 августа 2014, 11:15

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

• 11 августа 2014, 10:47

Italian Flavio Sidagni, convicted in Kazakhstan for drug distribution, has been released on parole.

• 05 августа 2014, 12:12

A specialized district court of South Kazakhstan Oblast sentenced the 27 y.o. mother who sold four of her children.

• 01 августа 2014, 12:19

A military court in Cameroon has handed down prison sentences of up to 20 years to 14 Boko Haram members, the country's state broadcaster Crtv reported.

• 26 июля 2014, 14:47

The jury’s decision on Azamat Tazhaykov’s case could affect the defense of Dias Kadyrbayev and Robel Philipos.

• 25 июля 2014, 14:11

America's death penalty debate raged Thursday after it took nearly two hours for Arizona to execute a prisoner who lost a Supreme Court battle challenging the experimental lethal drug cocktail.

• 24 июля 2014, 14:22

A former Black Panther who hijacked an airplane in 1984 and diverted it to Cuba was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Miami.

• 18 июля 2014, 13:22

A US judge sentenced two British men to a combined total of 20.5 years in prison Wednesday for conspiring to provide and for providing equipment and personnel to the Taliban.

• 17 июля 2014, 13:00

A Guatemalan court handed down the country's first conviction of a leftist guerrilla leader for the killings of indigenous farmers during the 1960-1996 civil war.

• 05 июля 2014, 11:26

A pastor of a state-sanctioned church in China has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, his lawyer and an overseas rights group said, accusing authorities of "fabricated charges".

• 04 июля 2014, 18:31

A US official said Thursday the United States has repatriated a dozen inmates from a secretive military prison in Afghanistan where foreign terror suspects have been held for years without trial.

• 13 июня 2014, 11:17

Guatemala's former police chief Erwin Sperisen on Friday received a life sentence in Switzerland for seven murders committed in the Central American country.

• 09 июня 2014, 00:29

A Greek court on Wednesday sentenced a suspected activist of the far-right Golden Dawn party to 10 years in prison for stabbing a high-school student, judicial officials said.

• 05 июня 2014, 13:04

North Korea has increased economic linkages with a prison camp where inmates are working by hand in agriculture, according to satellite imagery released Thursday by a human rights group.

• 05 июня 2014, 11:14

Press service of the Prosecutor's Office of Astana informed that former convicts will build the facilities for EXPO-2017 in Kazakhstan.

• 05 июня 2014, 00:19

A New York man walked free Tuesday after 17 years in prison for murder, after it was determined that false testimony had been used to convict him, authorities said.

• 04 июня 2014, 11:45

A court in Argentina's Salta province Monday sentenced to 30 years in prison the man who raped and killed two young French women tourists out for a hike.

• 03 июня 2014, 10:40