Russia to launch Europe's largest prisonRussia will launch Europe's biggest prison in 2015 to replace one of its most notorious jails that once held revolutionary Leon Trotsky and Soviet-era dissidents.
Kazakhstan allocates $13 million for electronic taggingKazakhstan has recently introduced changes to the Criminal Code. In this regard, the state will allocate $13 million for electronic tagging devices for monitoring convicts.
'Prince of Pot' back in Canada from US prisonCanada's self-proclaimed "Prince of Pot" returned home , vowing "political revenge" after spending more than four years in a US prison.
Condemned man's US execution takes nearly two hoursAmerica'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.
US sentences British men over Taliban supportA 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.
Pastor of state church 'sentenced to 12 years' in ChinaA 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".
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US transfers 12 detainees out of Afghan prisonA 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.