Latin American prisons are overflowing
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Nobody ever proved Santos Gusman Batista stole the missing DVDs. He was just thrown into prison and told to wait 10 days to learn the charges against him.
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Many detainees at GuantÃ¡namo Bay were regularly subjected to harsh and coercive treatment, several people who worked in the prison said in recent interviews.
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Police in South America&#039;s largest city have been placed on maximum alert following a shootout in which 13 suspected gang members were killed trying to carry out a plan to attack prison guards.
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The number of prisoners in England and Wales has risen to a record high of almost 81,000, the Prison Service said today.
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Arts & entertainment: In Latin America, populist movements are rising up against western intervention. John Pilger explains why only the cinema was big enough to tell their story.
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New data suggests that the prisoners affected by recent changes to drug sentencing laws are very different from the general prison population.
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San Salvador -- At least 31 prisoners died and 23 were wounded yesterday during clashes between gang members and other inmates in El Salvador&#39;s largest prison, officials said.
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Fresh predictions for the prison population suggest government building plans may not provide enough cells.
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A crackdown on probation violators is exacerbating overcrowding at many county jails across Florida, forcing the release of some suspects who are awaiting trial.
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The number of prisoners in Scotland's jails reaches a record high, according to new figures.
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The Chief Inspector of Prisons says improvements to the system are under threat because of overcrowding.
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The jail system is in "serious crisis" with overcrowding affecting rehabilitation, the chief inspector warns.
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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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Gang members at two prisons in El Salvador took some 100 visitors and prison staff hostage on Thursday, demanding direct negotiation with a top federal human rights ombudsman and an Archbishop, according to reports reaching in Mexico City from San Salvador
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - With time running out, Nazihunters are making a new push to track down aging war criminalsstill living in South America, a region notorious for openingits doors to those responsible for the Holocaust.
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More than 6,000 inmates at 24 prisons around Romania took part in hunger strikes and other protests Sunday to demand amnesty and better living conditions.
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There are concerns at the country's top maximum-security prison about a possible war between drug cartels and reports surfaced that some high-profile inmates might have been planning an escape.