Rioting erupts at penitentiary
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ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES -- Rioting swept through a penitentiary housing 2,000 prisoners in central Argentina late yesterday, leaving at least three inmates dead and two dozen guards hostage, authorities said. Television footage showed rampaging inmates on the prison's roof wielding homemade knives while holding hostages, including one man in a bloodied shirt. Shots rang out as the rioters cast rocks ...
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Angry residents have set fire to dozens of heaps of rubbish in a worsening dispute with the authorities.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  US military police killed two detainees at Abu Ghraib prison early yesterday after a riot broke out in a tent camp at the sprawling facility west of the capital.
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The jails of this crowded, sweltering city are getting crowded, and not with your typical prisoners.
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Riot officers are called in at an immigration detention centre after staff and inmates were injured in a fire.
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By staff reporters and AAP. ANGRY scenes have erupted inside and outside a north Queensland court today where 18 people faced charges over last week&#39;s violent rampage on Palm Island.
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Afghan troops stormed a notorious prison Friday in an assault aimed at ending a standoff sparked by a bloody escape attempt by four
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An angry mob destroyed police stations and a courthouse in two Amazon towns while trying to lynch murder suspects, officials said Monday. One man was killed during the rioting and 44 people were arrested.
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A standoff with 11 inmates at a maximum-security jail escalated into violence Friday, wounding two guards and the inmates as a SWAT team used tear gas and pepper spray.
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GANG members at two Salvadoran prisons staged rebellions within minutes of each other today and are holding about 100 visitors and prison support staff hostage.
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The capital of an Afghanistan&#39;s western province was engulfed in tension as demonstrators loyal toformer governor of Herat province looted and burned local army barracks and UN
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The mock prison cell, the barking dog belonging to another protester, people asking names and ages.
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KABUL -- Afghan troops stormed a notorious prison in a hail of gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades yesterday, ending a 10-hour standoff that began when four inmates once suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda tried to escape. Four inmates and four guards were killed in the day's violence.
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BAGHDAD -- US troops in Iraq shot and killed four inmates during a prison riot yesterday, the military said.
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More than 200 inmates staged an uprising Tuesday on the roof of their prison to demand the ouster of the warden and seek better conditions.
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Three prison guards were injured Monday while trying to break up a dining room brawl at an Arizona prison on the eve of the first anniversary of a hostage standoff at another state lockup.
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Â· More prisoners being held in police and court cellsÂ· Slopping out returns as repairs are cancelled