Figures reveal 1,300 prison officers guilty of misconduct over six years
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Home Office reluctantly reveals five worst jails with security breaches among most common offences.
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Top Pentagon officials and the  military command in Iraq contributed to an environment in which  prisoners were abused at Abu Ghraib prison, according to a  report released on Tuesday by high-level panel investigating  the military detentions.
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Six counselors at a high-security juvenile prison have been fired after an investigation found that two of them used excessive force during a fight with two inmates, and the four others falsified reports about the beating.
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WASHINGTON -- An Army inquiry into prisoner abuse in Iraq has found that almost three dozen intelligence personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison either colluded with guards to mistreat detainees, personally abused and tortured inmates, or ignored the abuse, officials said yesterday.
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SYDNEY, Australia - Six men have been convicted of charges ranging from rape to indecent assault following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on their small Pacific island.
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Thousands of prison officers across England and Wales started a 24-strike over pay Wednesday, forcing jails, many of them seriously overcrowded, to lock offenders in their cells.
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Six descendants of the original mutineers on the Bounty were found guilty yesterday of 32 sexual assault offences in one of the last and remotest outposts of the British empire.
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SYDNEY -- Six men have been convicted on charges ranging from rape to indecent assault following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on their small Pacific island, home to descendants of the 18th-century mutineers from the British ship HMS Bounty.
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Â· 1,200 released early under emergency package  Â· Prison population again tops 81,000 record
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CONVICTIONS against six men on charges of sex abuse against women and girls on remote Pitcairn Island over nearly 40 years were &quot;the tip of the iceberg&quot;, public prosecutor Simon Moore said yesterday.
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George Ryan was sentenced him to six and a half years in federal prison for racketeering and fraud.
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Women inmates in New Jersey's prisons are twice as likely to be raped and nearly six times more likely to be otherwise sexually abused by other inmates than their male counterparts, according to a new federal study.
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Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.
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Up to 1,200 criminals were being released from the overcrowded prison system today as the government's early release scheme came into effect.
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A long-awaited US Army report on the abuse of Iraqi prisoners has concluded that military intelligence and police soldiers in Iraq were chiefly responsible for 44
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States' compensation for wrongful imprisonment ranges from zero to millions of dollars.
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By Alan McEwen Crime Reporter  POLICE chiefs disciplined 35 officers and support staff following a probe into X-rated websites being accessed at work, it was revealed today.