Early jail releases reach 14,000
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Almost 14,000 prisoners have been freed early in England and Wales to relieve overcrowding, government figures show.
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Vietnam has released nearly 9,000  prisoners, including 10 inmates whose cases it says had drawn  international attention, as part of traditional pardons granted  ahead of independence celebrations on September 2.
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Preliminary reports suggest there could be as many as 14 people captured, including four Americans
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After two decades of massive growth, the U.S. prison population began to level off in the first six years of this century, according to 2006 census statistics released today.
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Drug offences in England and Wales rose 14% between April and June, Home Office figures show.
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In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.
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Japan's prisons are at their most crowded in years, a result of rising crime and longer sentences.
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Â· More prisoners being held in police and court cellsÂ· Slopping out returns as repairs are cancelled
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Faced with unprecedented prison overcrowding _ and the threat of a federal judge imposing an early release program as soon as this summer _ state officials Friday announced a temporary plan to transfer thousands of inmates against their will to out-of-state prisons.
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Thousands of prison officers across England and Wales started a 24-strike over pay Wednesday, forcing many jails to lock offenders in their cells.
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Prisons and jails added more than 42,000 inmates last year, the largest increase since 2000.
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Software aimed at standarizing prison sentences had been applied to more than 1,500 cases, newspaper says.
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The number of people in U.S. prisons and jails or on probation or parole reached a record 7 million at the end of last year, accounting for about 3 percent of the nation's adult population, the Justice Department reported on Thursday.
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The United States, which has the most prisoners of any country in the world, last year recorded the largest increase in the number of people in prisons and jails since 2000, the Justice Department reported on Wednesday.
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Two more young men have been freed after serving time in jail for a case involving a 17-year-old who had consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl.
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HOUSTON &#151; A former Border Patrol agent was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in federal prison for helping cocaine and immigrant smugglers and for selling immigration documents.
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SPENCER, Iowa -- The tiny jail here has housed many a typical small-town Iowa criminal since its bricks were laid in 1938 -- drunk drivers, drug abusers, the occasional thief. These days, though, Sheriff Randy Krukow walks the cell row and behind the bars sees a new kind of increasingly typical l...