Inmates Help in Rescue of Captive Guard
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Inmates helped rescue a guard taken hostage by four other inmates at a regional Virginia jail Saturday, ending a four-hour standoff, officials said...
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KABUL -- Three Afghan employees of a French aid organization, who had been held hostage for seven weeks by Taliban insurgents, were freed unharmed after local residents intervened, the governor of Nimruz Province, Ghulam Dastagir Azad, said yesterday. The three men were kidnapped along with two French aid workers on April 3. They had been working on a project for ...
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The military is toughening a new jailhouse for suspected al-Qaida and Taliban militants to protect guards after a spate of attacks and evidence that detainees have organized themselves into groups to mount uprisings, officials said.
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Prisoners with makeshift weapons battled guards trying to save a detainee pretending to commit suicide at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in what military officials said Friday was a coordinated attack that left six prisoners injured.
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Police widen their call for help to find a prisoner who escaped ten days ago still wearing handcuffs.
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ne of two inmates wanted in a daring jailbreak last month that echoed the plot of "The Shawshank Redemption" was captured in an apartment just six blocks from the jail
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More than 150 prisoners escaped from a state penitentiary in Cancun early Friday after hundreds of inmates overpowered guards with knives and bats. Police quickly recaptured about half the men.
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One of two men who escaped from a county jail in New Jersey last month was back in custody Tuesday, authorities said.
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The second of two men who last month pulled off a daring escape from a county jail in New Jersey was taken into custody Wednesday, authorities told CNN.
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One of two inmates wanted in a daring jailbreak last month that echoed the plot of "The Shawshank Redemption" was captured in an apartment just six blocks from the jail, authorities said.
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An elite anti-kidnapping force has rescued a 9-year old boy who was snatched seven months ago by leftist rebels, authorities said Wednesday.
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Two men and a woman are held hostage over night by a gang of up to 10 armed and masked men.
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Two jail inmates used photos of bikini-clad women to hide holes they used to escape and left behind a thank-you note, signed with a smiley face, for a guard they claimed helped them
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A prisoner who escaped last June was recaptured this week and accused of robbery after surviving for months by hiding out in a vacant electronics store and eating stolen baby food, police said.
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ALBUQUERQUE - Authorities say an inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center here was able to spend Thanksgiving as a free man after he pulled a switch on jail officials.
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An inmate who escaped from a hospital Wednesday, briefly taking a worker hostage and stealing two getaway cars, was cornered hours later in a cemetery by police and killed in a shootout, authorities said.
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An attempted escape at Boksburg prison in Johannesburg of South Africa has been thwarted and the warders held hostage have been freed, a warder said on Monday.