Prison damned as 'vermin-ridden'
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A report says Pentonville Prison is "overrun with cockroaches" and has high levels of assault allegations against staff.
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The Chief Inspector of Prisons says improvements to the system are under threat  because of overcrowding.
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Detainees at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were shackled to the floor in fetal positions for more than 24 hours at a time, left without food and water, and allowed to defecate on themselves, an FBI agent who said he witnessed such abuse reported in a memo to supervisors, according to documents released yesterday.
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A man is jailed for conducting an arson campaign against people he thought had links with the vivisection industry.
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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By WILSON RING  WINDSOR, Vt. - At the Southeast State Correctional Facility, inmates are subjected to head counts several times a day. Not Ziggy, Marmalade, Smokey and Shane, though - they come and go as they please. They're prison cats - but only for now.
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The Chief Inspector of Probation says demands on staff mean many offenders are not monitored properly.
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New generation of violent inmates blamed for growth of gang culture in prisons
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The jails of this crowded, sweltering city are getting crowded, and not with your typical prisoners.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross found &quot;cruel, inhumane and degrading&quot; treatment of detainees at the US military prison in GuantÃ¡namo
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Media & professional: Child jails staff 'may use move to inflict more pain'.
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A play performed in Czech prisons has inmates laughing bitterly over some accused who they believe were treated leniently
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FBI agents in the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, witnessed abuses of prisoners that included being left in their own feces, chained in ice-cold or super-hot cells
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Overcrowding in jails is creating a "disastrous situation" for the health of inmates, a prison doctor says.
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The Chief Inspector of Prisons says the system is at a crossroads with improvement under threat because of overcrowding.
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From their cells on Virginia's death row, the inmates can hear Percy Walton laughing. His chuckles come from nowhere, inmates say, and are often mixed with shouts and incoherent babbling.
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Tories and penal reformers accuse government of mismanagement of prison system