NJ jail guard in note commits suicide
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A guard who was named in a cheeky thank-you note left by two inmates when they chiseled their way out of their cells was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot Wednesday, the same day he was to be interviewed about the jailbreak, authorities said.
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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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A Saudi Arabian detainee died Wednesday at Guantanamo Bay prison and the U.S. military said he apparently committed suicide. Guards at the U.S. Naval Base in southeast Cuba found the detainee in his cell unresponsive and not breathing Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. military's Southern Command said in a statement.
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Word that a U.S. Army reservist was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for physically and sexually abusing Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison drew scorn Sunday from Iraqis who thought he should have been tried here and punished with death.
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A soldier committed suicide after being arrested on suspicion of arranging a sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl over the Internet.
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He should have been in jail. Or maybe locked down in a hospital. Or maybe in a life-altering boot-camp drug treatment program. Some doctor, some jailer or some judge should have known to save Ken Caminiti from himself.
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Private First Class Jason Scheuerman nailed a suicide note to his barracks closet in Iraq, stepped inside and shot himself.
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A Saudi Arabian prisoner died of an apparent suicide at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.
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A senior Health Ministry official told staff at Abarbanel Mental Health Center that suicidal patients should be put in restraints.
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An inmate died at a hospital early Tuesday after a failed escape attempt in which he grabbed a deputy's gun and wounded him and was then gunned down as he drove away in a police van.
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A young boxer who was taking part in the US boxing reality TV programme The Contender commits suicide.
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An inmate serving a life sentence for sexual assault killed a prison clerk and then committed suicide, authorities said.
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A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay has revealed how he saw two prisoners die at the hands of their American captors, before making a plea for his release in the first letter from a serving prisoner at the camp to be made public.
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Indian prisons are "a national disgrace" where 11 people have died and hundreds of others have escaped or tried to kill themselves the past three years, government officials said Tuesday, likening it to the U.S. military's mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib.
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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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Authorities arrested a prison guard and issued a warrant for another on charges they helped an inmate escape from a maximum security medical prison over the weekend.
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By TOM BREEN  CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Prison guards in West Virginia have gained some unexpected allies in their push for higher pay: inmates, including a self-proclaimed poet serving a life sentence for murder.