Jail branded 'Scotland's worst'
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Concerns about rehabilitation and conditions at Peterhead Prison are revealed in an official report.
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A BRITON who spent 18 years facing the death sentence in Pakistan for a murder he says he did not commit told today of the horror of hearing the sounds of fellow prisoners being executed just metres away.Comment
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Correctional officers at Pr. George's jail say facility is so violent they fear for inmate, officer safety.
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The Scottish Prison Service is expected to pay out Â£500,000 to prisoners in shared cells who are forced to slop out.
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Four Pitcairn Island men were sentenced  by a British court to prison terms ranging from two to six  years for raping underage girls on the remote South Pacific  island, a British official said on Friday.
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Scottish ministers lose an appeal over an inmate's claim for compensation after he was forced to slop out.
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BAGHDAD -- News that a US Army reservist had been sentenced to 10 years behind bars for physically and sexually abusing Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison drew scorn yesterday from Iraqis who thought he should have been tried in Baghdad and punished with death.
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Politicians, religious leaders and senior police officers have condemned Scotland's first major cage fighting event.
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Fifty prisoners have killed themselves in jail so far this year, compared to 67 for the whole of 2006.
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Drug dealing and bullying continue to hamper improvements at one of the UK's biggest prisons, inspectors say.
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Gambia&#39;s director of prisons has been sent to one of his own jails on theft charges.
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PATTAN, Pakistan  - Mohammad Sagheer says the year   he spent in prison in Guantanamo Bay has ruined his life.
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People in Scotland are the least knowledgeable in the UK about HIV and how it is transmitted, campaigners say.
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A man has been jailed for life for the racist murder of the Glasgow teenager Kriss Donald.
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Kenya's Human Rights Commission criticises conditions at Meru jail where seven prisoners have died.
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Children's charities react with anger after a man  who raped a 10-year-old girl was jailed for two years.
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Men involved in the violent abduction of a Glasgow shopkeeper are sentenced to a total of almost 43 years in prison.