Kenya prisoners die in tiny cell
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An inquiry is launched after five Kenyan prisoners die in a cell the size of a single bed holding 12 men.
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Kenya on Thursday said it has almost halved malaria deaths among small children by using insecticidal nets, spurring calls for free nets for all to tackle Africa&#39;s biggest killer.
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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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Human rights experts call them "prisoners of conscience." Hundreds of them around the world are forced to live in deplorable conditions in jail cells and prison camps.
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Fresh predictions for the prison population suggest government building plans may not provide enough cells.
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Children up to the age of five will be kept in prison with their mothers as part of a new experiment at an all-women jail.
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Eight inmates are killed when hundreds of inmates try to break out of a jail in Nigeria, police say.
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A Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death on Tuesday for deliberately infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
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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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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A former inmate at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who returned to Afghanistan to rejoin the Taliban as a key commander, was killed with two other militiamen in a raid by Afghan security forces, two senior officials said yesterday.
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Five nurses and Palestinian doctor have sentences reduced to life in prison for infecting children with HIV.
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Meeting a man who, only three days earlier, was still, in his words, &quot;dead,&quot; stuck in a cement cellblock of Egyptian solitary confinement, is an experience for which few come prepared.
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Inmates are reaching the end of their sentences but cannot be freed because they haven't attended treatment programmes.
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A woman accused of stabbing to death her son is found hanged in her prison cell.
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At least eight people are said to have died after inmates seize control of a top-security jail in Argentina.
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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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Afghan soldiers killed two prisoners holed up in Kabul&#39;s Pul-i-Charki jail on Friday after a day-long siege that started when a group of inmates identified as al Qaeda killed their guards in an attempted jailbreak.